{Scenes from Paper Soldier.}
I am gathering inspiration. I am harvesting visuals. I am storing in my mind’s eye various scenes of great beauty that have been flickering on the screen before me. I know how snow sounds underfoot and that it is possible to peddle through water on a bicycle. I am not alone in thinking that this will set me up for the year ahead, this process of gathering sights and sounds and ideas.
Recently I saw Alexei German Jr’s Paper Soldier and I have placed atop my imaginary list a new favourite. Such cinematic beauty well supplied with cosmonauts, crows, and a landscape covered in equal parts with white snow and brown mud, a small dacha, women with almond-shaped eyes and dogs, plenty of dogs. I wonder what it must feel like to make such a film?
Also seen of late, the beautiful 35 Shots of Rum and countless others. I am having a difficult time keeping up. Must be why I have a head cold and have near to lost my voice. It’s all about endurance.
{And there are still more to see.}
Scenes gathered from
35 Shots of Rum
Pardon My French
Empty Nest (El nido vacío)
Katalin Varga
Flame & Citron
Morphia
