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INTIMACY IN FILM (18/?): FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (1993), dir. chen kaige
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“What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the real questions, and who could answer them?”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt
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N.C. Wyeth (United States 1892-1945)
Herons in Summer, 1941
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Viktor Zaretsky (Ukrainian 1925-90), Autumn Wind, 1977, Oil on canvas
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Atsushi Sakurai, 1990
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“Your eyes are like fantastic moons that shiver in some stagnant lake, Your tongue is like a scarlet snake that dances to fantastic tunes,”
— Oscar Wilde, from The Sphinx, 1894.
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And I’m so yours.
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bring back homeric epithets. call people brave-hearted, swift-footed, laughter loving and loud thundering. view the world with its rosy fingered and saffron robed dawns, its wine dark seas. make your own, walk across kiln fired earth and moss soft as sea sponges. be dew-eyed and soft-cheeked and silver-souled, deft-fingered and bright-tongued. gaze up at the many-storied stars and feel the warmth of the ancient sun, father of gods and men, as it beats down on the shimmering world, soft spun like caterpillar silk
