> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of frank theriault > > I was walking late Sunday evening, during a lovely snowfall: > > http://knarfinthecity.blogspot.ca/2012/12/snow-on-lake-shore- > boulevard.html >
I'm reading La Bete Humaine by Zola at the moment, before my film class starts in a couple of weeks time and we do Renoir's 1938 film version with Jean Gabin. There's a great chapter in which the train driven by Jacques Lantier, the psychopathic anti-hero played by Gabin, has to make its way to Paris through a tremendous snow-storm. Well, maybe your tram isn't the monster in the book, and maybe your snowstorm isn't the horrific tempest that Zola drew, but the picture is atmospheric for all that, and was perfectly timed for my reading! Very enjoyable. <http://www.criterion.com/films/773-la-bete-humaine> The novel, incidentally, is fantastic - well worth reading. A precursor of all the hard-bitten pulp fiction and noir from Hemingway to Cain and beyond, with the best femme fatale since Eve had one of her bright ideas in the garden of Eden. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
