A Second Wave of Postcards

New photographs of movies -- postcards from our hours of pandemic movie watching. Bill and I are OK. Awaiting the Second Wave. Getting through the days. Movies help.

"Believe it or not you mean a lot to me." -- Nora Gregor in La règle du jeu (Rules of the Game), Jean Renoir, 1939.

"I don't like compliments." -- Jean Marais as the beast in Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946.

"You're harsh for a happy man." -- Maurice Ronet and Hubert Deschamps in Louis Malle's Le feu follet (The Fire Within), 1963.

"It's like you don't care about anything in life." -- Isabelle Corey in Bob le flambeur (Bob the Gambler), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1956.

"Living is hard" -- Jean Gabin and Michèle Morgan in Marcel Carné's Le Quai des Brumes (Port of Shadows), 1938.

"The pain and loneliness of death frighten me." -- Yûzô Kayama and Toshirô Mifune in Akira Kurosawa's  赤ひげ (Red Beard), 1956.

"...but I've got lots of imagination." -- Alain Delon in René Clément's Plein Soleil (Purple Noon), 1960.

"The hard part is to set out." -- Charles Le Clainche in Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut (A Man Escaped) directed by Robert Bresson in 1956.

"You saw no one disappear yesterday?" -- Didier Després in Bruno Dumont's very strange Ma route (Slack Bay), 2016.

"Let your elders lead the way." -- Banlop Lomnoi in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's wonderful Satpralat (Tropical Malady), 2004.

"And now go in peace." -- Jean-Paul Belmonodo in Léon Morin, prêtre (Leon Morin, Priest), directed by Jean-Paul Melville, 1961.

Simone Weil: The soul's love of beauty is the trap God uses. -- in Roberto Rossellini's Viaggio in Italia (A Journey in Italy), 1954.

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