Category: French cinema

• Céline Sciamma’s Study of Eurydice’s Gaze in “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

  

  At the beginning of the film, we see a paintress conversing with her students, and in the background, there is a picture they brought, but they should not. The painting portrays a grayish landscape, and a woman with her dress on fire, slowly walking towards it centre, so it seems. The majority of the painting…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  February 8, 2020

  Cinema of the World, European cinema, French cinema

  Celine Sciamma Films, Lady on Fire Meaning, Love Symbolism, Orpheus and Eurydice Symbolism, Portrait of A Lady on Fire Review, Queer Cinema, Queer Cinema Films, Sacred and Profane Music, Vivaldi Summer in Movies

• Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959) “…Nevers Mon Amour”

  

  Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais, opens with a close-up of an arm and body amorously entangled. They are in the dark, their bodies are joined and small particles, resembling ashes or sand (as the sands of time), are falling and covering them. They are caressing and soon begin to glow, as they are…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  March 20, 2018

  Alan Resnais, European cinema, French cinema

  Art, Atomic Bombing, Cultural Trauma, Destructive Love, Forgetting, France, Hiroshima, Klimt, Love, Second World War, Trauma

• Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993) “Blue Is the Coldest Color”

  

  Three Colors: Blue came out half a year after the Maastricht Treaty was signed, transforming the European Community into the European Union. The film was supported by the Council of Europe, but mostly financed by the French. It celebrates the idea of the European unity and integration, but also the three principles of the French…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  September 25, 2017

  European cinema, French cinema, Krzysztof Kieślowski

  Art, Baroque, Classical Music, Corinthians, Europe, European Union, Love, Melancholy, Music, Philosophy, Psychology, Romanticism, St. Paul