Um filme deve ser julgado não apenas pela experiência estética e intelectual que proporciona durante a exibição, mas também pela sua ressonância posterior: desaparece rapidamente da memória ou permanece na mente, continuando a estimulá-la? Isto parece implicar que um crítico de cinema não deve apressar-se a publicar um texto...
A film should be judged not only by the aesthetic and intellectual experience it provides during the screening, but also by its resonance afterwards: does it evanesce quickly from memory, or does it linger on the mind, continuing to stimulate it? This seems to entail that a film critic...
“Most of human life”, Simone Weil wrote in her essay on The Iliad, “takes place far from hot baths”, but her own discomforts were mainly self-inflicted. She was born in Paris in 1909 into an assimilated, well-to-do Jewish family. (…) Simone Weil was a gifted child, graduating first in...