NEW SOUNDS ARE FOLLOWING ME
Every now and again the unexpected turns into real discovery. That’s exciting. A few weeks ago I attended an Art Film Festival over a period of four days at the Louvre Auditorium. You can’t imagine how comfortable the theatre is and acoustically marvelous. I will only write very briefly about some of the films as one of them leads onto new discoveries.
The new Peter Greenway which opened the festival « Goltzius and the Pelican Company » is excellent for costumes, text but from my point of view is verging on pornography. I am anything but a prude but there were some scenes which went overboard. Then an interesting film called « 16 acres » directed by Richard Hankin on the reconstruction of Ground Zero. Corruption is rampant and the final tower took many more years than was planned. Onto now a film on Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. I visited that with my Mother just after Franco’s death. There was not a soul around. Today it is a thriving tourist attraction. 125 years have