Saturday, July 16, 2011
French Seduction
Last night, I saw the French film "The Names of Love" at the Paris Theater. Ostensibly it's about a girl who converts fascists and racists to leftist causes via sex, only to see the flaws in seduction. But a bigger theme is heritage and identity. From YouTube, one of the film's best lines, "The day there is nothing but half breeds, there will be peace." In the film, the Holocaust and grandparents from Salonika are weaved in. (Papou wears a fez!) There were a few good lines about systemic tragedy ... asking what can we remember, what should we, and how do we communicate it? Choosing not to identify with being a victim, what do you remember? What should you remember?
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