I saw Belle De Jour this summer on the silver screen and my hazy memory is telling me that in the version I saw the husband was killed by the boyfriend and the boyfriend was killed by a cop. And then I remember, vaguely, a cut to a final fantasy sequence. >My other query is: What is this film about? >Let me suggest an odd answer: It is about what it is about. My intended >contrast is with a mimetic theory where the work of art is about what it >imitates. Perhaps Bunuel's films are closer to "pure" works of art. It is definitely about itself, but also what it imitates...people, although I find it more of a satire than an imitation. Whether the satire is intentional or not is a question of how self-important/indulgent the french are. >A parallel may help. Perhaps some Romantic music is about that which it is >the story of, often what is suggested in the title of the piece. Surely there >is also music which tells no story, paints no scene, does not even set or >explore some mood; it is just music. Of this music, we might say that it is >about nothing, or about itself, or about what it is about, treating all three >statements as at least roughly equivalent. I don't believe that anything tells no story. Everything creative tells a story, at the least, about the creator as well as the medium used if it doesn't have a "real" narrative. True. Different films are a mix form and content, consiously or not, but I don't see how either can be called "pure" film. -Jeff Stein *********************************************************************** "Me, Grimlok, mad!" -Grimlok, Dinobot *********************************************************************** jeff stein 608.264.2587 1082 wales house sellery a 821 W. johnson st. [log in to unmask] madison wi 53706-1798 http://www-arch.housing.wisc.edu/Stein_Jeffrey/WWW/ *********************************************************************** **** **** ***** ****** **** **** ********* ******** **** **** **** **** ******** **** **** ****** /*** ***\ **** **** ****** ********** *********** **** **** ********** --------- --------- ---- ---- ----- ----- ---- ---- ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]