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venerdì 20 settembre 2013

A Late Quartet


"First they have you and your hypnotizing the audience in your relentless precision. They follow you like a cobra follows a snake charmer. Then, you have my father and he's adding color and texture and rhythm. He's always enhancing you and lifting you up but he'll never outshine you. [...] And then there's my mother. She adds a depth of sound that none of you can bring. She makes you want to weep without exactly knowing why. Is that the voice of a wounded soul? The survival skills she had to develop prepared her to serve three masters at the same time, the one she loves, the one she partners with and the one she desires."

Usare la macchina da presa per permettere a un pubblico profano e curioso di sbirciare da vicino il mistero che avvolge il mondo della musica classica e i suoi schivi professionisti è un'opportunità invitante, ma realizzare un'opera cinematografica appassionante e coinvolgente senza risultare eccessivamente distaccati o reverenti verso esperti e amatori e amatori è tutta un'altra musica: eppure, pellicole come A Late Quartet( in Italia, "una fragile armonia") ci dimostrano che in mezzo ai giganti delle grandi produzioni hollywoodiane un cinema intimo e attento è ancora possibile, per tradurre in immagini una polifonia di musica e umanità complessa e imperfetta fermandosi ad ascoltare quando l'occasione lo richieda.

martedì 6 novembre 2012

My angel, my all...my other self

"My angel, my all...my other self. Just a few words today, and that in pencil. Yours. Only tomorrow will I know for certain where I am to stay...a worthless waste of time and such. Why this deep sorrow? If we could be united, we would feel this pain no longer. Where I am, you are with me too. Soon we shall live together, and what a life it will be!
The journey was dreadful. I did not arrive here until 4 in the morning. At the last stop, they told me not to travel at night and tried to frighten me about a forest...but that only tempted me The coach had to break down on such a terrible road for no reason. Just a country road. And now I am held up completely. But I have found another, and we will surely see one another soon. Today, I hope. I have to see you.
However much you love me, I love you more. Never hide yourself from me.
While still in my bed, my thoughts turn to you...my Immortal Beloved. Some of them happy, some sad...waiting to see whether fate will hear us. I can live only completely with you or not at all. Yes, it must be.
I must go to sleep now. Be calm, love. Today, yesterday,what longing with tears for you. You...You're my life, my everything.
Farewell, then. Go on loving me. Ever yours, ever mine, forever."





domenica 6 marzo 2011

THE speech

"In this grave hour , perhaps the most fateful in our history , I send to every household of my peoples , both at home and overseas this message spoken with the same depth of feeling for each one of you as if I were able to cross your threshold and speak to you myself . For the second time in the lives of most of us we are at... at war . Over and over again we have tried to find a peaceful way out of the differences between ourselves and those who are now our enemies . But it has been in vain . We have been forced into a conflict . For we are called , to meet the challenge of a principle which , if it were to prevail , would be fatal to any civilized order in the world . Such a principle , stripped of all disguise , is surely the mere primitive doctrine that might is right . For the sake of all that we ourselves hold dear , it is unthinkable that we should refuse to meet the challenge . It is to this high purpose that I now call my people at home and my peoples across the seas , who will make our cause their own . I ask them to stand calm and firm , and united in this time of trial the task will be hard . There may be dark days ahead , and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield . But we can only do the right as we see the right and reverently commit our cause to God . If one and all we keep resolutely faithful to it , then , with God’s help ,we shall prevail . "


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