Ondine

Ondine, Act II scene 10 by Jean Giraudoux: J’ai ressuscité le bouvreuil. I resurrected the bullfinch.

Around a cup of coffee begins the movie Face because the food has a particular meaning in the Taiwanese culture.
Enter in the circle of the burning cup, the bowl of tears until the curve of the iced bath.

Let suppose that the Truffaut's cinema could be reincarnated in an animal:

• a little bird buried by Antoine Doinel in the Montmartre cemetery not so far from the Truffaut's graveyard or
• a stag beheaded like St. John the Baptist on request of Queen Herodias who must carry his heavy head.
  

No, the stag is not dead. The Truffaut's cinema resuscitates in the dreams of the Tsai Ming-Liang's cinematic paintings.

For Salome, the underground Louvre is a Wonderland as cold as the North Pole. In the manner of the Jean Giraudoux's play of theatre, she met her cruel executioner, a snowman with snowflakes on his face that become red like tomatoes.

Because she is Ondine, she resurrected the bullfinch flying in circle around the quiet waters of the Great Basin of Tuileries containing in its center the island of the Huashan Culture Park 華山文化園區 in the flooded city of Azaleas a.k.a. Taipei, little fountain recalling circularly the cup of coffee.

Credit:

• the French actress Laetitia Casta as Salome,
• the Taiwanese actor Lee Kang-Sheng 李康生 as Hsiao Kang, the film director giving food to Zizou the stag,
• the Taiwanese actress Lu Yi-Jing 陆弈静 as the ghost of the Hsiao Kang's mother drinking a liquid food in a bowl,
• the French actress Fanny Ardant as the Queen Herodias and the producer who dreams in a bedroom in Taipei,
• the French actor Jean-Pierre Leaud as King Herod and Antoine Doinel warming TiTi the bird in the gardens of Tuileries,
• the film director Tsai Ming-Liang 蔡明亮 offering coffee to LaeTiTia Casta and Henry Loyrette,
• the president and curator Henry Loyrette who opens the Louvre to the film directors, opus 1: Face,
• the photographer William Laxton,
• Atom Cinema in Taiwan and Rezo Films in France,
• Microsoft Silverlight, Deep Zoom Composer, Microsoft Israel Innovation Labs for the Headlight player,

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