Sunday, 17 January 2016

Elena et les hommes
(1956)


[Elena and Her Men;
Paris Does Strange Things]

Rather light sex comedy confection with a typically enchanting performance from Ingrid Bergman. She conveys warm hearted femininity and tolerant boredom with her many suitors with equal aplomb. (They’re either rich but old or young but penniless.)

However, the film does not add up to much in its cheery, disposable way as it shows the irrepressible human sexual urge in most of its more obvious manifestations. Taking on elements of French farce, this is good, undemanding fun that should leave you with a smile on your face.

Basically a movie about the choices of men a beautiful woman has to consider prior to marrying one of them, the plotting, characterization and the themes are thin to non existent. The movie lacks the political dimension that would have made it truly memorable.

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.