@deanduncan63Saw Ross McElwee’s #PhotographicMemory. A mournful, almost nihilistic work from this perennial optimist …
… The case is particular, but still posits toward the general proposition that all the bright paths from youth’s hope & promise …
… lead only & ultimately to the diminishment & disappointment of entropic age. What a change! Good luck to him!
#PhotographicMemory. Hints of Blow Up, & Rashomon. Echoes of N. Philibert’s Back to Normandy …
… which is to say, of course, Proust. The past as a grand key to all experience & insight. Which still, alas, turns out to be irrecoverable.
#PhotographicMemory. Finally, intertextuality & blighted romance aside …
… this film contemplates what must be the saddest of all unrequited loves …
… which is the anxious & consuming devotion of the superannuated parent for his restive, rejecting child.