La Reine Margot by Patrice Chereau
1572 | France is torn apart by the Wars of Religion. Catholics and Protestants have been fighting for years. To quench the hatred, Catherine sets up an alliance for peace: she marries her daughter Margot to Henri of Navarre, her Protestant cousin. A political scheme that everybody sees through. Thousands of Protestants have come for the wedding. They are invading the inns and the streets. Their dark clothes and looks provoke the Parisians, already on the verge of rebellion.
Margot’s wedding, a symbol of peace and reconciliation, will be used to set off the greatest massacre in the history of France.
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there’s a mark upon your skin…where your heart once used to be
you’re a sinner with no soul…you’re the nearly was I never had
you’re an angel I was told…then you put the arrow in my back
Never Let Me Go
I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I’ve lost since my childhood is washed out. I tell myself, if that were true, and I waited long enough then a tiny figure would appear on the horizon across the field and gradually get larger until I’d see it was Tommy. He’d wave. And maybe call. I don’t know if the fantasy go beyond that, I can’t let it. I remind myself I was lucky to have had any time with him at all. What I’m not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Alfredo: Living here day by day, you think it’s the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything’s changed. The thread’s broken. What you came to find isn’t there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time… many years… before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It’s not possible. Right now you’re blinder than I am.Salvatore: Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?
Alfredo: No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it’s all me. Life isn’t like in the movies. Life… is much harder.
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