“While I’m interested in external reality, I am much more concerned with how people resolve their inner dilemma in the face of external reality. How do you resolve it? How do you deal with it? So that’s Sara’s quest for ecstasy is on the external level.
“Paulo Rocha started to work in the early 1970s on a project about the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, a Portuguese writer and former Navy officer who settled in Japan in the late 19th century.
“Blending an episodic romance with children’s family problems and the pollution of the local river, Green, Green Grass compares favorably with Ozu’s lyrical comedies of the 1930s.
“Wednesday September 27, 1978:
“This sense of unrootedness and disorientation may stem largely from an aesthetic dissonance between Fassbinder and Genet [whose novel Querelle de Brest was adapted by Fassbinder], both in terms of agenda and the times in which they were working.
“Where are we in Ana? In Portugal, since the filmmakers are Portuguese. But this small country is still too big.
« Je me souviens de Toute Une nuit (1982) avec Aurore Clément, c’est un film auquel je pense encore souvent et qui compte beaucoup pour moi. J’en vois encore tous les plans, comme la gare de Bruxelles à la fin.
“Leçons d’une université volante is a quintet of short interviews with Belgian immigrants from communist Poland. The Dardennes have said one of the reasons they made documentaries was to gather people together and build communities of workers, immigrants, and activists.
