Hello all,
I am still a little bemused that people insist on talking about documentary as truth telling. While sometimes documentaries might
represent some facts it is usually only in fiction that we encounter the truth. I have just spent a day with Ophuls' 'Le Plaisir',
it seems to me that the sequence where we see the first communion of the madam's niece is about as close as we might hope to
grasping the truth of a certain kind of sense of community. I am a born again athiest and yet this five minutes of film: lighting,
the grain of the voice, the balletic camera movement, the articulation of a sense of personal history, the shifting of interior
and exterior, the extimate, and yes, a dappled nostalgia, achieves the intimacy of humanity's striving toward the sublime.
peace
alan
A. Fair
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