MOVIE STACK011

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This is the image that taught a child of seven
how a face filling the screen was suddenly the
most precious thing in the world, something
that haunted you ceaselessly, that slipped into
every nook and instant of your life, until
pronouncing its name and describing its traits
became the most necessary an delicious
occupation imaginable -in a word, the image
that taught you what is love. The deciphering
of these bizarre symptoms only came later,
along with the discovery of cinema, so that for
the child who had grown, cinema and woman
became two inseparable notions, and a film
without a woman is still as incomprehensible
to him as an opera without music. Why this
face and this gaze remained unknown for
almost sixty years is yet another mystery.