MOVIE STACK012

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By petting a cat as early as the second
scene, Simone Genevois had obviously
won my immediate approval. But nothing
prepared me for the shock of a face enlarged
to the dimensions of a house, and I am sure
that the quasi-divine character of the
apparition played its role in the enchantment.
No doubt that’s why I always feel something
like aggression in the use of the word « cinema »
for films seen on television. Godard said it
quite well, as he does sometimes: cinema is
higher than us, it is that to which we must lift
our eyes. When it passes into a smaller object
on which we lower our eyes, cinema loses its
essence. One can be moved by the trace it
leaves, this keepsake-portrait that we look at
like the photo of a loved one carried with us;
one can see the shadow of a film on the
television, the longing for a film, the nostalgia,
the echo of a film, never a film.