Jiří Votruba's Postcards

Illustrator Jiří Votruba (1946)

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Czech winter at Prague

= ili ledeni zimski dani u Pragu uz koji tračak sunca =

* i praški Muzej igračaka - Muzeum Hraček,
sa malom ali slatkom kolekcijom dečjih radosti iz prošlosti *

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Sweet Valentines ♥

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La Chamade (1968)

Catherine Denueve in a movie La Chamade (1968), which has also been released under the title Heartbeat, based on Françoise Sagan's novel, enchanting with her elegance and beauty, at some point has a line:

- Listen, Etienne. I discovered the truth with a capital "T".

- No fooling?

- Listen to me.

- Hold it.

- I'm in no hurry.

- All right, let's hear it.

- "Respectability, that's what did it. I found out a long time ago that it's idleness which breeds all our virtues that are most bearable - contemplation, equitableness, laziness, letting other people alone. Plus good digestion, mental and physical - the intelligence to concentrate our attention on the pleasure of the flesh - eating and evacuating and fornicating and sitting in the sun than which nothing is better, nothing to match, nothing else in all this world, but to live for the short time which you are alone on this earth to breathe, to be alive, and to know it." - William Faulkner, my friends.

There you are. I've made my decision about it. I've leave you to make of it what you will. Good-bye. Good-bye.

- I'll meditate on what you said.

Synopsis

Lucile enjoys a life of leisure and comfort, thanks to her rich sugar daddy, Charles. Despite the difference in their ages – Lucile is 25, Charles is in his forties – they appear to be the perfect couple, sharing a large house, socialising with friends. Then, one day, Lucile meets a man of her own age, Antoine, towards whom she is instantly attracted. They hurl themselves into a passionate love affair, and Lucile soon realises that she must leaves Charles and move in with Antoine – even though the latter hasn’t enough money to support both of them. Antoine finds his lover a job, but Lucile soon realises she is not cut out for work. Then she discovers that she is pregnant, and the painful reality of the life she has chosen suddenly hits home...

It’s a pessimistic, even cynical, view of human relationships, but in contrast to the conventional cinematic approach, it is one that is far nearer reality. The sadness in the film’s final, tacitly understated sequence is so keenly felt because it is so close to our own experiences.

Wishful Thinking Orient

While freezing at this time of cold siberia winter, suddenly I run on this video - behind the scenes during the production of the Marni at H&M commercial, directed by Sofia Coppola in Marrakesh, Morocco: link

And thought of Tunisia in summer 2008...