I feel the opposite! But A Man Escaped is my favorite Bresson, so I don't know what that says, except that we're talking French cinema in the Literary thread.
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Hayden - Mar 19, 2008 11:26:59 am PDT #5380 of 28503
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
megan walker - Mar 19, 2008 11:30:59 am PDT #5381 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Will it help if I say I do like his literary adaptations, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne and Journal d'un curé de campagne?
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2008 11:32:01 am PDT #5382 of 28503
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've never even heard of him.
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 11:44:37 am PDT #5383 of 28503
Punishingly Intricate
French cinema was one of my favorite classes as an undergrad. Alas, I speak no French (except menu).
megan walker - Mar 19, 2008 12:05:11 pm PDT #5384 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
except menu
Ah, but do you know what menu actually means?
Regardless, I'm sure you know tons of other things.
En garde! Fromage! Cherchez la femme!
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 12:09:12 pm PDT #5385 of 28503
Punishingly Intricate
Ah, but do you know what menu actually means?
um..I mean I usually know what food I'm ordering off of a French menu! (even if I can't pronounce it properly)
What does 'menu' actually mean???
En garde! Fromage! Cherchez la femme!
And these things, of course!
juliana - Mar 19, 2008 12:18:58 pm PDT #5386 of 28503
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
megan walker - Mar 19, 2008 12:19:12 pm PDT #5387 of 28503
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
What does 'menu' actually mean???
Menu is a classic faux ami/false friend.
A list of appetizers, main dishes, drinks, desserts, etc. is a "carte" in French. So, if you are ordering "à la carte", it means you are ordering individual things off one big list.
A "menu" is what Americans call a prix fixe meal, i.e., an appetizer + main course + dessert, all for one set price, where you can sometimes choose from among 2-3 things for each course.
So if you ask for the "menu" in a French restaurant, you will get the special meal; not a list of individual items to be ordered willy nilly.
Seekrit message to juliana: Absolument pas!
lisah - Mar 19, 2008 12:31:43 pm PDT #5388 of 28503
Punishingly Intricate
So if you ask for the "menu" in a French restaurant, you will get the special meal; not a list of individual items to be ordered willy nilly.
Good to know!
(I feel like I did know this at some point..)
Nutty - Mar 19, 2008 2:13:56 pm PDT #5389 of 28503
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I just read Ballard's follow-up memoir The Kindness of Women and it's fantastic.
Eh. It's been a decade since I read it, but my overall conclusion was, it's a lot less fantastic if you're one of the women in question. About the most interesting part of it, for me, was mapping the little fibs it's speckled with: for a memoir, it's remarkably untruthful on some of the details.
(Then again, that was part of the weird/creepy appeal of Empire of the Sun as well. Mrs. Vincent is a lot ickier when you realize that she's loosely based on his own mother.)