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  • Lionel 2022-04-07 08:01:02

    fall in love like a child

    The time is 1917, the location is the red light district of New Orleans, and the background is the face of a 12-year-old girl in a dimly lit attic, with long chestnut hair, bright eyes, a full lips that are tight but about to unfold, and a woman giving birth. Heartbreaking cry. As the cry ended, a...

  • Daniella 2022-04-07 09:01:08

    A few points that require cultural background

    1. On the first night of the auction, Violet was carried out in blue veil, and the virgin was dressed as the Virgin Mary. On the one hand, in the eyes of the photographer, she was a prostitute but as pure as the Virgin. The director, on the other hand, may be mourning the plight of religion in the...

  • Lisa 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    The rise and fall of brothels + the birth of a young prostitute + photographer's version of Lolita won the Cannes Technology Award. Louis Mahler set a luxury brothel in New Orleans in 1917 as a story space, covered with mirrors, stairs, candlesticks and antique wallpaper curtains. Eye-catching as a lens. The delicate and complicated arrangement of group portraits, the composition of depth of field and the use of mirror space also make this brothel a luxurious and dazzling labyrinth. Here, early photography still thrives. The triangular relationship between photographer, Violet (12-year-old Brooke Shields is really amazing) and her mother is ambiguous and blurred. Louis Mahler's combination of elegance and debauchery, innocence and sophistication is so eloquent, it is amazing. PS: The subtitles have been greatly revised and translated, and the version has been washed~ (8.5/10)

  • Hayden 2022-04-08 09:01:13

    In the real world, no matter how cute the bear children are, they will be peeled off when the photographer's negatives are pulled out! The story of the photographer and the 12-year-old is very round: you destroyed his negatives, his lifelong love, and he still loves you, that must be true love; 12-year-old we all pretend to understand if we don't know how to love, these two people set I have a lot of experience.

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    Violet: I love you once. I love you twice. I love you more than beans and rice!

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    Violet: You hate me.

    Bellocq: I have no time for hate or love.