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White & Red - Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Each deserve their own, but I couldn't wait, watched "White" and then immediately watched "Red".
Classic Kieślowski - the small hallmarks, the overlapping of separate narratives, the recurring symbolism - the old man or woman trying to recycle a bottle, the same as in "Blue", "La double vie..", and there's this haunting feeling that I've seen it before but I can't for the life of me predict the plot. I recognize the characters from his other films, Dekalog especially, which lends the films a certain familiarity.
There is no signature style - or there is, but it's impossible to put your finger on, with Wes Anderson a single still frame will reveal the director, with Kieślowski it's the sum of all the parts. There are no surprises, no twists, yet - while the film evolves, the narrative continues in trifling understated increments you are blindsided by the ending, "White" especially hits you like a sucker punch in the stomach.
There is no - I want to say over-reaching intellect, like in Kubrick where know you are in the playground of a great mind, - but it's there, only - more subtle, it's embossed into the film, nuanced, hidden, layered and washed with color, sublime, here - the films are ordinary - ordinary - ordinary - and yet at the end there's a spiritual triumph, an awakening, it's the transformative power of art, they are - even the poorest ones by him - easily an order of magnitude above anything produced by his peers. He's the right film-maker at the right time. I appreciated him before - but now, more than ever. Small things come to mean the world and I'm dying for worthy company to discuss it with, but - well, I'm in Calgary...
"Red", stopping it, again and again, feeling it, savoring the moment, I don't want it to end...
He beguiles you with simplicity, the slowly evolving premise of existence, imbuing every moment with wonder, coincidences, symmetries, never overstated, hinting at a divine order beyond comprehension, subtle, muted, he's a master.
I did not see them, I don't think, maybe I did but not through the same eyes, everything was a surprise, ordinary lives that in the end are anything but ordinary.
The end, finally, a brief moment of familiarity, suggesting - that maybe I'd once seen it, or clips of it at least, but I'm not sure.
These are great films. See them if you like film. Even if you saw them a long time ago, indulge yourself, they reward a revisit.
Gilles Berquet
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An old discovery, sharing now, I'd forgotten I'm sorry...
There will be a lot more "old discoveries" as I sort through everything. I've been a long time away from technology and am just catching up...
Link to more Gilles Berquet: Image Search on Google - Gilles Berquet
he is rather inspiring...
H&W Produce
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Now, my hood, the Co-op is the first choice, followed by Safeway. Prices roughly the same, although Safeway sells the spicy Thai chilies at $1.00 less than Co-op, still too expensive, $3.00 for 50 grams of chilies and a whole lot of extraneous packaging.
Am I supposed to eat these or snort them?
You can buy the same at Save-On Foods for around $10.00 per pound, which works out to about 80% cheaper - more or less, but Save-On is a bit of a drive away and I can't eat THAT many chilies to justify the gas.
But today, up in the NE, stop by H&W Produce, and - WOW, I've grown too used to being fucked over by Co-op. 98 Cents per avocado, and some are even ripe. At Co-op, $2.50, $3.00 per, and you're buying futures, they're so hard they won't be ripe for weeks. Field-berries for $1.28 a package...Habanero Peppers for $7.00/lb, beets $1.27/lb, I could go on.
Suffice it to stay I'll stick with Co-op for trivial, non-green-grocer things, but for produce it's H&W all the way. I saved - VS Co-op - easily $12.00 today - on a $7.00 purchase.
DVD's, CD's, Photographs and Letters
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Pruning, pruning. Look at the photographs, colors washed already and barely 30 years, bad photographs of people who's names I struggle to remember, of places, I was a bad photographer, candid snapshots, "scenic photographs" done a million times better by a million other people a million times since, tear them up. Letters from people long forgotten. Tear them up, tear them up. Save, one, two maybe per album - If I can't remember, what will the children make of it?. I won't come this way again. Tear them up, tear them up.
Another box, DVD's, really? When? Never mind. They can go in their own pile, to the thrift shop.
CD's - a few will get a listen, the rest, the mixed tapes of forever-ago, tastes change and if you need to live in the past there's always AM radio...But they can wait for sorting, I've enough on my plate for the moment, trunks of photos, letters, notebooks to be shredded or annotated. And the CD's - maybe a few classical ones I can save, YouTube can get overwhelming with their ads, a CD promises a more focused and thoughtful listening experience.
I'm trapped here, imprisoned, in the dismal cave of memory, tear it up, tear it up, easier to just walk away but that sorts out nothing, and there's a lot here to be sorted...
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