“You made the world rosy, then you left.” —Geneviève in Entre la mer et l’eau douce (1967)
Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau, Delphine Seyrig
Daughters of Darkness (dir. Harry Kümel, 1971)
Allan: That’s quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn’t it?
Museum Girl: Yes, it is.
Allan: What does it say to you?
Museum Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of Man forced to live in a barren, Godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror and degradation, forming a useless bleak straitjacket in a black absurd cosmos.
When she first appeared on screen, I thought to myself, “Wow. She’s hot. No, she’s beautiful!”
Katie agreed.
Then, as ‘Museum Girl’ opened her mouth and began expressing her opinion of the Pollock piece, I realized I was in love. This was my ideal woman.
It’s too bad she’s a character in a film. A character created by a man. A character who exists for less than two minutes in a 1972 film.
::frowny face::
From Gus Van Sant’s Mansion on a Hill, a short-film in the 2008 omnibus film, 8.
(All 8 short films are available to watch on YouTube.)