Sunday 28th of September, 2003
technical and paint-related reasons
My relaxing weekend continues: I go to Polly's latest private view, this time at a gallery in a private house in Earl's Court, and of course it's very pleasant to see P & B again. The new paintings are blue, which must be less stressful than the yellow (although apparantly not necessarily, for technical and paint-related reasons) and are portraits of chairs, some of which I know well enough to recognise. Which is odd, since I probably wouldn't be able to do that with portraits of people. Belleville Rendezvous is wonderful. I can't really explain it right now, perhaps ever, but look out reviews by more articulate people than me. Better yet, look out the film itself. It's particularly nice to see something so deliberately influenced by Tati (in the same way that in The Fifth Element, Besson took Moëbius as his model).