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A destination des gares parisiennes
Les photos prises sur le quai, avant de composter nos billets et de monter dans le train. On trouve la scène très romantique, même avec les énormes valises sur les épaules.
Louvre Pyramid
The glass pyramid of the Louvre, at sunset.
La pyramide en verre du Louvre, au coucher du soleil.
Windows on Milly
The town of Milly-la-Foret, situated some 50 kilometers southeast of Paris, near the Forest of Fontainebleau.
Pictured: the old market hall, in the town center, a window from the town church, and the wooden shutters affixed to the old stone homes.
Milly-la-Forêt, la commune située à une cinquantaine de kilomètres au sud-est de Paris, près de la Foret de Fontainebleau.
Les vu de nuit du halle de Milly, en centre ville, un vitre de l’église, et des volets de maisons en pierre.
La Moustache
In La Moustache, a man shaves off the mustache he has worn for years, and inadvertently throws away a part of himself along with the shavings.
His wife and friends don’t even notice that he is clean shaved. His wife denies that he ever had a mustache, and that he might be losing his mind. Thus his life starts to unravel, as old photos in which he sports his signature facial hair mysteriously disappear, along with his memories and notions of reality.
I loved this film, although I’m not sure I understood the allegory. I’m content thinking it was about the lack of complacency in a marriage, and how easily paranoia can creep up. Either that or it’s about how much a signature item – facial hair, a clean shave, a hairstyle – define who we are.
The Descent
We recently watched "The Descent," the film about a group of friends on a caving expedition, and who undertake the titular descent into a dark, claustrophobic and hellish abyss, with no way out. The women, who share a passion for extreme sports, organized the venture to help one in the group overcome her personal tragedy.
The story of the woman’s accident a year earlier, and the trip through the cave’s dark, narrow crawl spaces, were unsettling and claustrophobic, and all too real for me. I welcomed the introduction of some supernatural element, something creepy but not likely to scare me in my day to day life. My ears perked up when we met the first Gollum-inspired, bat-like, flesh-eating cave dwellers.
Nous avons récemment loué « The Descent », un film d’horreur qui raconte l’histoire d’un groupe d’amies, toutes amateur de sports extrêmes, qui entreprennent une expédition spéléologique dans un monde troglodytique cauchemardesque. L’expédition a été organisée pour aider une des femmes a surmonter une tragédie personnelle.
L’histoire de son accident et la descente dans l’obscurité des crevasses de la caverne se sont révélées bien trop réelles et trop perturbantes a mon gout, a tel point que j’attendais l’introduction d’un aspect surnaturel, quelque chose d’effrayant mais qui n’existe pas. J’aime bien avoir peur, mais plutôt « happy-peur ». L’apparition des résidents des grottes, sortes de Gollums mi-humains, mi-chauve-souris, a donc été la bienvenue.
Parking in Paris
New, leaner pedestrian symbols
Ensemble, c’est tout
“Ensemble, c’est tout,” the popular novel by French writer Anna Gavalda, which has been translated into English as Hunting and Gathering, has been made into a film, directed by Claude Berri (with Audrey Tautou and Guillaume Canet). I was halfway through reading the book at Claire and Seb’s when Seb’s mom, Martine, mentioned that it had been made into a film. And why not? The book is well-written and cinematic. The short chapters read like movie sequences. While reading, I imagined the conversations between the characters being played out on screen.
Anna Gavalda also wrote “Je l’aimais” (Someone I loved) and “Je voudrais que quelqu’un m’attende quelque part” (I wish someone were waiting for me Somewhere).
“Ensemble, c’est tout”, le roman d’Anna Gavalda vient d’être adapté au cinéma. Le film de Claude Berri (avec Audrey Tautou et Guillaume Canet) est sorti en France le 21 mars. J’ai adoré ce livre, et si on peut juger le film par sa bande d’annonce, il semble être très fidele au bouquin.
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