From an interview with Brigitte Fossey

Nico 2022-01-20 08:01:31

When children are plunged into war, it's very powerful.
War wins out, and children are corrupted.
They are no longer children, but monsters.
Death is a game for them.
The term is "introjection".
When we're shocked by something as children, the only way to get over it is to reenact what initially shocked us.
So they kill animals, because they'd seen people killed in the war.
They create a cemetery.
It's horrible.
It's monstrous and macabre.
...
To me, lighting creates an emotional space.
Robert Suillard created light tinged with emotion, Like Rembrandt.
He used chiaroscuro to express the soul.


-from an interview with Brigitte Fossey, 2001

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  • Carmela 2022-03-26 09:01:12

    Michelle - Michelle - Michelle -

  • Clyde 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    That guitar sound is really sad and moving. The whole film is smooth and fresh, like a little poem, telling a sad childhood episode. Loneliness, death, separation, these things weighed on the hearts of the two children prematurely, giving them an adult melancholy in their supposedly innocent eyes. I feel especially sorry for those children who have experienced bruised hearts, because I know how difficult it is to forget the past!