Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
IN FRENCH this week we watched this documentary ‘les glaneurs et la glaneuse.’ although it didn’t exactly satisfy my inclinations for impressionable cinematography, it did make me miss la culture française. sneaking into vineyards, eating figs from the trees, wine in the afternoon. i left with an open wound, yet my curiosity for french film perked.
Agnès Varda, the director and writer of Les Glaneurs, is known as the ‘grandmother of La Nouvelle Vague.’ (The New Wave, referring to the French filmmakers of the late 1950′s-60′s.) The films of this era rest beautifully among European art cinema. The most famous directors being jean-luc godard (accompanied by the lovely anna karina) francois truffaut, and claude chabrol. plurality of the films are poetic, romantic, pretentious, and/or crime thrillers…what more could you want?
during my free time i am committed to watching the films. among the glorious:
-le beau serge (1958)
-ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1958)
-les bonnes femmes (1960)
-a bout de souffle (1959)
-jules et jim (1962)
-vivre sa vie (1962)
-un homme et une femme (1966)
