2 masterpieces:
"Cleo de 5 a 7" (Cleo from 5 to 7) by Agnes Varda, french film. The sweet comfortable beauty of things where the drama is inside. That's the key to make a story where everything appears right, where everything is made to appeal to the audience and avoids obvious dramatic items: hide them, make the drama hidden (here it's laying in the head of the main character, or it's even hidden from the scenes, we *don't know* if there's a drama. No murders, no bloods and screams or sex or war, yet we're captivated, and everything is light and fair.
"L'année dernière à Marienbad" (Last year in Marienbad) by Alain Resnais. For once a movie that glorifies human beings! A movie that's all about transcending beauty, where rococo architecture becomes humans and vice-versa, where persons become statues and luxuriance is voluptuousness. No more people personified as people. A work that reminds me of Andre Breton's Nadja with how it pays attention to details, and how it makes me feel like every little object is worth a lot of attention, and every human, me first, is a god - perfect sensation of calm and meditative contemplation, with the absence of usual anxiety.
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