Be careful about ardently imprudent mis/alliances, young people, or you may one day find yourselves heartbroken on a devastatingly beautiful Christmas Eve at a French Esso station with the snow softly falling all around you.
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Saw #UmbrellasofCherbourg. Some preposterous concoction, all that impossible colour coordination & relent/dishly pretty music …
… Or, this is how theatre works. Patently arranged & artificial, then paradoxically/powerfully leading us back to deeper feeling & truth …
… My disbelief suspended, absurd turns delicate, turns exquisite, turns shattering. Such echoes w’ that ending: “[His] soul swooned slowly …
… as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end …
… upon all the living and the dead.