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"The city", by greek egyptian poet Konstantínos Kaváfis (1863 - 1933)

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2025

Hi, if anybody is reading this. I have had this blog for many years, intending to make it some sort of collection of films, I guess. I recently turned 30 and every day, with adulthood and its events and incidents, I feel more distant with the things I used to love when I was younger.

So this year I'll be more flexible with the criteria that organizes this blog and I'll simply add all things that arouse my attention and seem easy to be posted here. That's it.

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Calendar illustrations for « Très riches Heures » of the duke Jean de Berry. These miniatures from the XV century depict an harmonious life, in which every member of the stratified and immobile feudal society diligently undertook their tasks.

Leaving all the social injustice aside, I'm very fond of the paintings. Also love the way this ideal harmony extends to the relationship between men and nature as well. Also the zodiac signs.

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This is not gonna stop. It keeps going on and on. Fatal Attraction (1987) Adrian Lyne.

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I guess you thought you'd get away with it. Well… you can't. 'Cause part of you is growing inside of me, and that's a fact, Dan, and… you'd better start… learning how to deal with it. 'Cause you know, I… I feel you. I taste you. I think you. I touch you. Can you understand? Can you? Fatal Attraction (1987) Adrian Lyne.

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We were attracted to each other at the party. That was obvious. You're on your own for the night. That's also obvious. We're two adults. Fatal Attraction (1987) Adrian Lyne.

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And, you know, another thing is that you thought that you could just walk into my life, and turn it upside down, without a thought for anyone but yourself. Fatal Attraction (1987) Adrian Lyne.

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Benoît Magimel in La pianiste (2001, Michael Haneke)

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"Dreaming of the things they don't have, feasting themselves on good and bad. Next morning, all had vanished." And here the mood switches to irony. D, d, d. "Yet still, they've had their share of pleasure." That rhythm is the obstinacy of the middle class. "And hope that what they left behind will be found once again on their pillows."

La pianiste (2001), Michael Haneke

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“After all, love is built on banal things”

La pianiste (2001), Michael Haneke

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"I don't have feelings. And if I ever did, they would not defeat my intelligence"

La pianiste (2001), Michael Haneke

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 Blue Gate Crossing (2002), Yee Chin-yen.

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Blue Gate Crossing (2002), Yee Chin-yen.

"When I see you, I always take a second look at... you."

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Blue Gate Crossing (2002), Yee Chin-yen.

"I'm thinking. In a year, three years, five years,… where will we be? You're kind, cheerful, uncomplicated. You'll be even better"

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La double vie de Véronique (1991), Krzysztof Kieślowski.

"November 23, 1966...was the most important day of their lives. That day, at three in the morning...they were both born in two different cities...on two different continents. They both had dark hair and brownish-green eyes."

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La double vie de Véronique (1991), Krzysztof Kieślowski.

"Do you see it? And there, below, the fog. Look. It's not fog. It's really millions of little stars."

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La double vie de Véronique (1991), Krzysztof Kieślowski.

"But now I want to write a book, a real book. In this book there's a woman... A woman who responds to the call of an unknown man."