Summary
Dive to the bottom of Moby Dick's endless allegorical depths and the fundamental significance of the white whale abides in his embodiment of signification itself. There's plenty to think about when the donkey hero of Au Hasard Balthazar is understood as a Christ figure, but to my mind the nexus of Bresson's spiritual allegory has always been that famous exchange of looks between animals at a circus, where Balthazar's dark, round eye opens a semiotic void into which all interpretation collapses.
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Bye-Bye, Birdie
The Hawk Is Dying
Strand ReleasingOpens March 30, Cinema VillageBye-Bye, BirdieWeird, wounded, and winged, Hawk works-until it doesn'tThe great thing about animals is their blank-eyed/blank-slate cap...See the full content of this document
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