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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.

- Vincent van Gogh

Night and Fog (1955)


“A concentration camp is built like, a stadium or a big hotel. You need contractors, estimates, competitive bids. And no doubt a bribe or two. Any style will do. It’s left to the imagination – Swiss style; garage style; Japanese style; no style at all. The architects calmly plan the gates through which no one will enter more than once. Meanwhile – Burgher, a German Communist; Stern, a Jewish student from Amsterdam; Schmulszki, a merchant in Cracow; Annette, a schoolgirl in Bordeaux – all go on living their everyday lives, not knowing that there is a place, a thousand miles away, already awaiting them. ”


I watched Alain Resnais’s “Night and Fog” (1955) this morning, on DVD, with my 6 month old …




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