Friday, November 6, 2009
Film This Week in Film: 35 Shots of Rum
Posted by Lindy West on Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 11:25 AM
Charles Mudede on Claire Denis and the modern urban family:
The urban family has a different and deeper set of values that are not connected by a sense of soil, wholesomeness, health, or devotion, but by the condition of being with (and close to) others who share the same fate, loneness, and melancholy. The urban family exists in a disenchanted world—science, capitalism, and cosmopolitanism have made it clear to everyone that life is short and death is final. All the urban family has are shared moments in time.
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