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MorkTheFiddle wrote: In recent French cinema a film appeared about two young women who fall in love. Perhaps someone can remember the name of it?

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu ?

http://frenchfilmfestival.org.uk/FFF201 ... arch-2020/

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Not sure I ever saw a review like this one:

Are we allowed to say: "fucking wonderful"?

Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Movie Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRBOMPZxFQ

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu ?

It was a good film. I am still trying to figure it out. The photography excellent.

DaveAgain wrote:

MorkTheFiddle wrote: In recent French cinema a film appeared about two young women who fall in love. Perhaps someone can remember the name of it?

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu ?

http://frenchfilmfestival.org.uk/FFF201 ... arch-2020/

Thanks, but no, that's not what I was thinking of. IIRC there is the name of a color in the title.

Carmody wrote:Not sure I ever saw a review like this one:

Are we allowed to say: "fucking wonderful"?

Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Movie Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRBOMPZxFQ

Apparently we are!

MorkTheFiddle wrote:

DaveAgain wrote:

MorkTheFiddle wrote: In recent French cinema a film appeared about two young women who fall in love. Perhaps someone can remember the name of it?

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu ?

Thanks, but no, that's not what I was thinking of. IIRC there is the name of a color in the title.

Maybe La vie d'Adèle, based on the graphic novel Le bleu est une couleur chaude? The English title is Blue Is the Warmest Colour.

Exact. Merci!

Hi Folks,

Anyone out there?

Haven’t posted recently but have definitely continued my daily reading of contemporary French literature. If anyone has an interest in the topic and would care to discuss it, I would enjoy the sharing of ideas on same.

First book to mention is:
Passion simple by Annie Ernaux which is 77 pages long and describes her longing for her lover who is from another country. It enumerates or catalogues all the sensations related to missing him during the absences. No real discussion of sex but lots of mention of longing.

It is also similar to Un Pedigree P. Modiano that I read earlier wherein he enumerates or catalogues what he has to say.
For my tastes, this style where the author enumerates or catalogues is a drag.

I give it a 4/10.

Next book is Chemins de fer by Benoit Duteurtre which is 186 pages long and which discusses his nostalgia for past way of life and especially for trains the way they used to be. Lots of mentions of trains.

Again not much plot but lots of cataloguing of what was.

I would give it at 2/10.

Finally, and I definitely want to end on a high point, is the book La Chambre Rouge by Françoise Mallet-Joris which is 290 pages. It describes the coming of age of an eighteen year old and her taking of a lover. It is actually a continuation of her other book mentioned above that is called Le Rempart Des Beguines Françoise Mallet-Joris.

I think they are both good books but I enjoyed La Chambre Rouge the most.

I would give it an 9/10.

A couple of observations on my readings in general. I have learned French in order to read from its wonderful literature and I am finding it well worth the effort. It is a true treasure chest that rewards richly.

Also, this book ends with the heroine truly finding her own identity and with it her freedom and with that being truly alone. Very alone. As with Thérèse Desqueyroux by François Mauriac, the main character fights fiercely for her freedom, wins it and then in her freedom finds herself very alone. Neither loving someone or being loved by anyone. I could follow this same theme through many of the French books I have read. No one does social outcast and being alone as well as the French. I love them.

Carmody wrote:Hi Folks,

Anyone out there?

Nope. Nobody here but us chickens.

Carmody wrote:A couple of observations on my readings in general. I have learned French in order to read from its wonderful literature and I am finding it well worth the effort. It is a true treasure chest that rewards richly.

100% agreed

Keep on truckin, Carmody, I admire your persistence.