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I have a special crush for this film.
I am 4 years old standing on the balcony of my parents flat in Belleville (Paris). Admiring my gigantic red balloon that my father gave me. ” attention qu’il ne s’envole pas…” were his words but it was too late, the balloon had gone. I remember the building opposite still under construction where it disappeared into, I was sobbing.
Watching this film brought it back to me and ironically it was filmed near Belleville…
The film director Albert Lamorisse, was also a photographer which explains why the graphics on this film are just timeless.
sylvied, September 25th 2007 |
Posted in Belleville, Films, paris
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In awe with the photographer, as a teenager I bought my first black and white film and started taking pictures of Paris…they were rubbish! Not long ago on the french news I saw the couple on the famous “Baiser De L’ Hotel De Ville”. Obviously looking old but still very together and happy! Apparently they were totally unaware of the picture being taken!
Find out more about him here
sylvied, August 25th 2007 |
Posted in Artists I like, Youtube, paris
Today I had a strange experience while walking home. I walked over the grid of a car park and was hit by a familiar smell. It was not an unpleasant smell, a mix of rubber, ventilation and old sweaty walls. That smell that I am sure goes unoticed by everybody else sent me straight back to my childhood.
Suddenly I was not this 30 something woman hurrying home with a bag of shopping on one side and a list of “to do” things on the other hand.
I was a 7 year old with gruby hands, frazzled hair and gaping smile. I was entering the bike shed belonging to our flat…it was dark and musty but exciting always as it meant we were heading to the Buttes Chaumont with my mum and brother.
It meant carefree, casual happiness…
Crossing the zebra I thought about that child I once was and wanted to start hopping…
sylvied, August 14th 2007 |
Posted in Buttes Chaumont, paris
