“We sat down to have what might have been Jordana’s mother’s last Christmas dinner, which i hope it wasn’t because the turkey was a bit dry and the sprouts were soggy and out of focus.”
I should read the book. I didn’t realise the film was set in the 80s, and instead thought the aesthetic to be ‘too hipster’!
I can see the brushstrokes so clearly, and his isnt even from the Google Art Project!
I watched this film again tonight, I haven’t read it since I was 12, but the film is incredible. I love the use of the garden as a symbol for rebirth, the Indian exoticism, Marys red beanie, the ivy covering the garden’s entrance and the lesson of how important one’s mindset and physical surroundings are.
It was hot, and strange, and lonely in India. I didn’t like it.
The Secret Garden (1993)
A Single Man (2009) dir. Tom Ford
Sometimes awful things have their own kind of beauty.
the Pont Des Arts in Paris. Lovers write their names on the lockets, attach them to the bridge and throw the key into the Seine to symbolise their everlasting love!