They used to return and dream they had arrived

The city I come from is different. There, everything takes time. Too much time.

[charitydingle]

Bringing Up Baby 1938, dir. Howard Hawks

[lostinpersona]

Tokyo-Ga, Wim Wenders (1985)

[lostinpersona]

Frantz, François Ozon (2016)

[lostinpersona]

Funeral Parade of Roses, Toshio Matsumoto (1969)

[lostinpersona]

Summer Palace, Lou Ye (2006)

[lostinpersona]

Xiao Wu, Jia Zhangke (1997)

[athousandgateaux]

“Even though I die, the universe continues. That does not console me if I am anything other than the universe. If, however, the universe is, as it were, another body to my soul, my death ceases to have any more importance for me than that of a stranger. The same is true of my sufferings.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace, pg. 194

[random-brushstrokes]

René-Xavier Prinet (French 1861 - 1946) - The White Rose

[chortache]

[nevver]

Nitro, Steve Banks

[bayynah]

[sure-i-m-decent]

Giancarlo Botti Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard at Jean-Claude Brialy’s house at Monthion c. 1960

[festeredhearts]

[les-fleur]

Summer Interlude (1951, dir. Ingmar Bergman)

[ninebagatelles]

Interviewer: “Are there devices one can use in improving one’s technique?”

Capote: “Work is the only device I know of. Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them.”

[toiich]

Summer Tale (1996), dir. Éric Rohmer

[silent-groves]

“It is difficult to see ruins because we see always the ghost of a building standing behind them that tends to explain them. But we imagine it. We always see something lost that gives meaning to what remains. But we hallucinate it. However conscious we are of it, in gathering together remnants of frescoes and shreds of writings, we always commit the irresistible error of believing that what has survived disappearance is a faithful sample of all that has disappeared. But what can we infer from the remains that the chance event of a volcanic eruption has preserved by engulfing them?”

- Quignard, P. 2011. Sex and Terror. [s.l.]: Seagull books, p. 190-191.