this is my second time around with blogging experiment..
though i titled it words are all i have got...
but as it turned out ... even words deserted me for sometime....
last few days, reading blogs all around....and then devouring creative works of other people..
it seems words have deigned to pay me a visit...
as i write the most powerful memory is the movie i saw last night
it was JULES ET JIM by Francois Truffaut
i had only heard of this great french director ... and never seen his works..
dhaka, as it happens to be heaven of pirated DVDs, is now growing its fangs from kitsch to classics
thats a boon for person like me...
i had picked the movie not knowing much about it....
and it turned out to be an inspiration beyond words...
the characters are so driven by destiny ... ..
laid back yet driven by their passions with languid landscapes in the background
one thing that strikes me as oddity in the world of literature...
is that women characters get away with liberties they take in their passion..
be it madame bovary or be it catherine in this movie...
their tresspassings in the fields of morality is their due...
as the jules says..... she has to be treated like a queen...
i am yet to come across a male character who has got similar stature in the same field
( maybe i am ignorant fool too ...)
Truffaut found this book in the second hand book store and felt compelled to make a movie...
i had the same feeling when i was reading NAMESAKE
( which i paid the premium price for in a premium bookstore)...
but i guess Meera Nair pipped me to the post there... ( as if i had a chance)
i think credit is due to Jhumpa Lahiri for inspiring a vivid pictures of her story in the minds of readers.
now i have become bit of a Truffaut fan and will be hunting for more of his works...
and he seems to be a prolific filmmaker... with virtually a movie a year and sometimes 2-3 releases in the same year.
links to some of his works :
http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/truffaut.html
now i have got some more directors like fellini and ingmar bergman lined up ...
