quinta-feira, janeiro 04, 2007

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Like the cadences of Georges Delerue's score, Truffaut is always inquiring, using the 20-year relationship of a prickly threesome as the jumping-off point for head-spinning moral and sexual scrutiny. If Jules is the Don Quixote to Jim's Sancho Panza, then Catherine is their windmill: Always tilting toward her, the men are oblivious that she is the apotheosis of obscure objects of desire. This free spirit drops clues like bread crumbs (she admires a character in a play for her ability to invent her own life), but Jules and Jim, victims of their culture-vulture precepts, readily ignore them. Duped by their civility, these men ask for Catherine to bulldoze their ideals.

A woman is a woman to Godard, but Truffaut saw deeper. Catherine is autonomous, using her sex as leverage to claim a man's sense of freedom. Truffaut doesn't typecast Catherine as a feminist or a repudiation of one. She is wild, passionate, maybe even a little mad, but always straight—which is to say, she is more real than anyone in the film's carnival of souls. But she is above all a romantic, and like another famous Catherine familiar to fans of Emily Bront and Kate Bush, her love is potentially metaphysical. Daring us to understand her,
Catherine shatters traditional views of women [sublinhado meu], just as Jules and Jim's visual panache destroyed conventional opinions of film art.


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Anonymous Anónimo disse...

- Contrariando o hábito do "movimento popular para uma crítica negativa";
- Porque me tocou especialmente o post sobre Jules et Jim;
- Sendo uma cinéfila invertebrada (o mito da cinéfila inveterada caiu nas aulas do Mário Jorge Torres...);
- E como estou sem sono...

É bom ver que é possível escrever muito bem sobre cinema a um nível (ainda) não profissional... Fiquei surpreendida ao descobrir o teu blog. Keep on with the good work!

2:39 da manhã, janeiro 24, 2007  
Blogger Miguel Domingues disse...

OH, por quem sois... e também tive aulas como MJT, mas não me posso queixar ...

Muito obrigado,
Miguel Domingues

3:53 da manhã, janeiro 24, 2007  

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