Permalink 9/10 A brilliant view on the decadence of this context. A very suggestive view of an environment abandoned to itself. I loved the fact that all the events happens in a single and normal day, as to highlight the fact that anything insane could happen in any moment. Brilliant exe...
The producers’ original, financially risky decision to printLa Hainein black and white (it was shot on color stock) is just one of the aesthetic triumphs freshly revealed in the Blu-ray version. The film’sblack-blanc-beurchiaroscuro conveys both the contemporary dreariness of the cement-and-...
Heyberger, 183. As noted, the second volume ofLa Syrie Saintewas intended as a pilgrim’s guide to the holy sites of Syria and was filled with descriptions of places and their biblical meaning. 25. Besson, 182 (note, in the copy of the first edition of this work at the Jesuit Archive...
Doctrines of Hatred, Part I: Anti-Semitism by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu (AD 1842-1912) was originally published in 1902, under the French title of Les Doctrines de haine: lʼanti-sémitisme, lʼanti-protestantisme, lʼanti-cléricalisme. Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu was a French historian and ...