The Life and Times of Giancinéphile

VEILED CHILLS

My head's still astray from the weekend and comme d'habitude, the odd child in me is looking for imagery that will haunt my head with my otherworldly interpretations. For instance, Emmanuelle Bercot's veiled beauty in Maïwenn's Le Roi.

There's always that uncanny disconcerting feeling I get when I look at images in relation to marriage. For instance, my notion of an ideal groom would be someone like Robert de Montesquieu and for some reason, I do like the idea of a bride like Jeanne Moreau in Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black. And an image that has been exciting my head is the impossible imagining of "what if  Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais lived to get married." I'd perhaps dress myself as an "ideal groom" this Halloween because it's quite symbolic of a domestic/societal tumult that's overflowing with anxiety and power struggles.   

NOTES ON GEEK CHIC

File under "Geek Chic." This conveniently illustrates what could operate as chic to me these days. So, let's put it closer into the details.

1. Visual Reference: Carlos' ensemble Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

2. My literal geeky twist would perhaps be an eco-friendly bag full of books only the deranged would enjoy (let's say Michel Foucault's Histoire de la foil and Julia Kristeva's Soleil noir would be some of them) that's inconveniently hurting my shoulders from lugging around everywhere I go for the day. But I would insist of such inconvenience as a necessity to someone like me.

3. As I go here and there, I'll probably be in a monologue avec myself... I'll probably do it in French like those protagonists in much too many films d'auteur struggling with their reality and their fluid introspections on their everyday life. 

4. With those being said, I can treat that as an amusing sort of performance art that can contextualise "literacy" in the digital age for a more contemporary feel... instead of evoking purely Benjaminian romanticism. 

BOOKISH PROFILE

In an ideal world, I'd happily live with doing self-portraits of myself together with my favourite books as a job (that pays the bills and allows me to live comfortably and travel in search of my books which are hardly ever available in Manille). So, it would conveniently go from the entirety of the Georges Bataille catalogue to Julia Kristeva, Proust, Kundera to Mehdi Belhaj-Kacem. Meanwhile, a good visual reference that came to mind is Fabrice Luchini in Anne Fontaine's Gemma Bovery. In any case I'd like to greet you a Happy Monday!