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Hello, stranger...

This is a private (from time to time) blog for my cinematic obsessions and scintillating (one-sided) reflections about movies. Feel yourself at home!

13 octombrie 2011

Epilog (a short movie by Tom Tykwer)



Dragostea e mai ales ceea ce se întâmplă atunci când, din varii motive, doi oameni care sunt împreună  nu sunt împreună. Atunci când sunt separaţi de gânduri, ezitări, tatonări, iluzii, deziluzii... Dragostea e (ca) o sală de aşteptare. Sau, la un alt nivel, ceea ce rămâne între doi oameni când între aceştia nu mai rămâne nimic. Iar dacă nu mai rămâne nimic, asta e! Vorba lui WKW: Love is all a matter of timing.

P.S.: Nu e chiar primul scurtmetraj al lui Tykwer, ci mai degrabă primul care chiar contează (cronologic e al doilea şi e din '92)

10 octombrie 2011

Monday Monologues (XLIII)


It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really love this one. When I think that its over, that I'll never see him again like this... well yes, I'll bump into him, we'll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we'll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There's a moment in life where you can't recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can't live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else's kisses. (Julie Delpy as Marion in 2 Days in Paris, dir. Julie Delpy, 2007)

09 octombrie 2011

Close & brief encounters of the third kind (IX)

Brad Pitt and... Sean Penn finally sharing the same screen in The Tree of Life (as father and son). Their first movie together, in other words!

05 octombrie 2011

03 octombrie 2011

Monday Monologues (XLII)


Mother, where do you live? In the sky? The clouds? The sea? Show me your face. Give me a sign. We rise... we rise. Afraid of myself. A god, he seems to me. What else is life but being near you? Do they suspect? Oh, to be given to you. You to me. I will be faithful to you. True. Two no more. One. One. I am... I am. (Q'orianka Kilcher as Pocahontas in The New World, dir. Terrence Malick, 2005)