Moderato Cantabile (1960) dir. Peter Brook

Seven Days... Seven Nights (Moderato cantabile) (1960) Peter Brook

May 7th 2023

When does Moderato Cantabile get famous and people start sending me shy messages about the fanart it inspired them? I miss the heartwarming feeling of it 🥺

Moderato Cantabile, Peter Brook (1960)

Anne Debaresde boit, et ça ne cesse pas, le Pommard continue d'avoir ce soir la saveur anéantissante des lèvres d'un homme de la rue.

Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantabile

- Je voudrais que vous soyez morte, dit Chauvin. - C'est fait, dit Anne Desbaresdes.

Marguerite Duras, Moderato cantabile (1958)

translation is one of the most difficult disciplines in the world and I have so much respect for every single translator, but sometimes the people who translate subtitles for a film are so bad at their job that I actually have to wonder whether they speak both languages in question….

What does a normal day for you look like?

as of summer i read and smoke and drank coffee way too much and then 2 and a half days a week i spent sorting and selling books. now with the academic season starting im going back on the limbo. i gather weekly with my research team and then spend the week preparing various materials mostly emails and infinite bureaucracies... right now coding interviews, contacting organizations for the project (we have not been so lucky). i have a communication for an international congress to write until late october which is making me mad. i have a congress to attend to coming on late september. i have my academic internship starting in early october which will amount to some beautiful gorgeous 18h weekly. my life is purely chaos and i cannot say i follow a routine. i try to wake up early, sometimes i stretch mostly i dont, i read, i convince myself to be responsible.... after a week of work i go through a weekend of work! sometimes i manage to catch a space to go drink and hang out with friends. mostly i try to enjoy the little time i already have chilling with my partner. perhaps if you had sent this a month earlier or later i'd have something more interesting to add but as of now it truly is just like this my dear... infinite jest!

today i finished blue eyes black hair by marguerite duras. she's far from being one of my favorite authors but I feel very connected to her books. I'm having fun thinking about the similarities in everything I've read by her so far :-)

Moderato Cantabile (1960) dir. Peter Brook

The Secret History characters as classical songs

Henry Winter; Shchedrin Concerto Cantabile I. Moderato Cantabile

Richard Papen; String Quartet No.3 “Mishima” VI. Mishima / Closing, Philip Glass

Francis Abernathy; Otoñal, Segunda Allianza

Julian Morrow; Un Sospriso, Franz Liszt

Charles Macaulay; The English Affair, Howard Harper-Barnes

Camilla Macaulay; Concerto pour la fin d’un amour (final), Francis Lai

Honourable mention; Violin Concerto No.1 (1987) Movement II, Philip Glass

Edit: I forgot Bunny… so let’s give him “Chopin Nocturne B.49: Lento con gran espressione in C-sharp minor” because sadddd tragedy

Finally, finally, Moderato Cantabile's 18th chapter is out!

Sopra i tuoi seni seminudi c'era un fiore. Magnolia bianca. Il mio nome è Chauvin.

Moderato Cantabile, Peter Brook (1960)

Chauvin leva la tête vers le ciel encore faiblement éclairé, bleu sombre, et il se rapprocha d'elle qui ne recula pas. - Bientôt l'été, dit-il. Venez. - Mais dans ces régions-ci on le sent à peine. - Parfois, si. Vous le savez. Ce soir.

Marguerite Duras, Moderato Cantabile

- Lève la tête, dit Anne Desbaresdes. Regarde-moi. L'enfant obéit, accoutumé à ses manières. - Quelquefois je crois que je t'ai inventé, que ce n'est pas vrai, tu vois.

Marguerite Duras, Moderato cantabile (1958)

"Oh Louis, Louis. Still whining, Louis. Have you heard enough? I've had to listen to that for centuries." | "Listen, Louis. There's life in these old hands still. Not quite Furioso. Moderato? Cantabile, perhaps." | "How can it be?" | "Ask the alligator. His blood helped. Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi, slowly, Lestat became something like himself again. Claudia... You've been a very, very, naughty little girl." | "Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves."

Tom Cruise as Lestat in Interview with the Vampire