CONTE d’HIVER
via Eric Rohmer
Charles dans la rue . . .
One can rarely read people’s hearts.
Nothing about him, the whole or the parts.
Temps maintenant:
even quarrel
dead exiles who appear resurrected,
her dead likeness excels.
I like your silence,
votre coeur,
esprit large.
Run away?
Barry Alpert / Silver Spring MD US / 4-20-11 (3:03 PM)
After deciding to fit in a viewing of a recent film (HAHAHA) by a Korean director (Hong Sang-soo) admittedly influenced by Eric Rohmer, I arrived 25 minutes late for either my second or third experience of Rohmer's TALE OF WINTER. Only by choosing to draft an acrostic did I feel I might carve out a potentially presentable text from what I heard and saw while watching Rohmer's film, especially since I still haven't revised the intuitive drafts I wrote while viewing the first two features in the complete retrospective now in progress.
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