24 January 2013

Pain Paint Pain|t|hing

         
SBS.TV recently screened, and we appreciated,  I've loved you so long. (Director, Philippe Claudel. Actors, Kristin Scott Thomas, Elsa Zylberstein and Serge Hazanavicius. France, 2008)
      
In this scene, the central character Juliette goes to an art museum to meet a friend.

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She pauses at a picture of women in black, in grief at a burial.


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A voice interrupts her reverie.

The painting is called "Pain".

It is her friend.
          
 
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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something ...


 LOGOS/HA HA

          
Who is the author of this "Pain"? 
         
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This shared regard, we know, is primarily about her pain.

He wants to show her a little of his own. He says

"I'll show you another by him...
          
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No, no. Not this one.
    
 
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Another. Tomorrow...
    

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 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/

 someone looks at something ...


 LOGOS/HA HA