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I Am Greta 2020
And probably,
if they don't waste time
looking for an easier world,they can do it.
from Dogfish by Mary Oliver collected in Dream Work
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Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
I think Robert Bresson probably demonstrated that better than anyone else. In his film Au hasard Balthazar, from 1966, there is a constant opening and closing of doors, a constant entering and exiting of the space inside and the space outside. I can't think of another filmmaker who has so clearly articulated the relationship of inside to outside, space to space, the opening and closing of doors, the passage through a door, what it means to step over a threshold,…
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Phantom Thread 2017
I can live with the sky falling out from above
I can live with your scorn, your sourness, your smug
I can live with growing alone if push comes to shove
But I can't live without my mother's love
I can live flying around at an impossible pace
I can live with the bad etiquette that's fallen on this place
I can live with anything you got to throw in my face
But I can't live without my mother's embrace -
The Swimmer 1968
I can swim the length of the public pool underwater. I like to swim right along the bottom with my eyes open, and sometimes I find things—a barrette, some change, a ring, a gold chain, some plastic spacemen, a comb, nothing too extraordinary. But this one day I was swimming along and I spotted a pearl, and then another and so on until I had both hands full of pearls, real pearls. When I surfaced I heard this darkly tanned,…
