I avoided making curries. I edited the picture i had on my computer, =/ anyways enjoy comment suscribe do w/e you want I've read quite a few now, and Destroy, She Said would probably be up there hovering around my top five. In that movie volunteers in a blank deserted modernist university have brain surgery to remove their ability to speak but increase their power for telepathy. This one made a big impression on me because its far from what i concibe as cinema. It's what most of the people like and is waiting for so we should have quickly a lot of success and respectability. This book moves fast, not just due to it's length but due to the urgency the words demand. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Destroy! The bay windows are shut. 93 min. He parted his lips, and the show began. Want to see I don't really know how much of the impenetrability here is about missing cultural context on my part (the interesting but ultimately not that clarifying interview with Duras that makes up the second half of the book was the first time I realized that the book was intended to be at least somewhat about/filtered through Marxism, for example) and how much of it is intentional, but that's actually the most successful part of the book for me. Sign in to vote. I plan to reread this at some point, I'll be interested in seeing whether I get anything more concrete out of it then. Marguerite Duras is such an assured stylist that I'm still dumbfounded by reading new works from her. Détruire, dit-elle (English, Destroy, She Said) is a 1969 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras based on her book of the same title. There is a beautiful grove outside where white sun-loungers are thinly spaced out on the daisy-strewn grass, where white cast-iron chairs with backs made of symmetrical curlicues poise. Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. Destroy She Said Destroy She Said, the hard rock band from Melbourne, Australia are a grinding, incessant machine fuelled by a heady diet of classic Aussie rock and filtered through a range of influences including Black Sabbath, QOTSA, AC/DC and Rose Tattoo. That sums up the feel of the place. An excellent, confusing account of insanity, desire, and erosion that sticks with the reader long after the book is finished. Released 13 February 2011. During a card game I actually felt like I was holding a hand.Alissa (Nicole Hiss) is so strange, described as having the hair of a child, with a bearing both uncertain and yet sure at the same time, like a Delphic Pythoness. (1969). The finer details of the incident and the life I'd led before it lost their relevance the moment my heart stopped beating and the cold set in. How many years? It's a short work, that benefited reading in one sitting, and I have since read it again. With Catherine Sellers, Michael Lonsdale, Henri Garcin, Nicole Hiss. I bought it at a used bookstore and, like in a fantasy movie, I found it has magical powers. Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of a French diplomat, lives in 1930s India. RELEASED OCTOBER 5, 2011 ℗ 2011 DESTROY SHE SAID. Over millennia, Brigid, Goddess of the Sun, has conquered and converted the entire solar system into worshipping her and her alone, save one space colony. Luckily, at 85 pages, I managed it in two sittings. She Said, Destroy. Amongst many merging references is the beautiful line that Stein delivers on the subject of Max and Alissa sleeping together every night, "one day they'll find the two of you shapeless, clotted like tar" The location to go into more detail is a hotel absent of staff, absent of the outside. [1] Cast [ edit ] In this classic novel by the best-selling author of The Lover, erotic intrigue masks a chillingly deceptive form of madness. Permalink. Destroy, She said. And that is why they intentionally cheat at games in front of the 2nd woman (forgot her name). Elisabeth Alione is convalescing in a hotel in rural France when she meets two men and another woman. morrison-dylan-fan 24 June 2018. The Boiler and Pierogi are pleased to present “Destroy, she said,” an exhibition featuring the work of Beth Campbell, Jeff Gibson, Serban Ionescu, Nina Katchadourian, Miranda Lichtenstein, Jeanine Oleson, Peter Rostovsky, Ward Shelley, Dexter DESTROY SHE SAID. The men imply that they wish that the woman stay. About desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. Directed by Marguerite Duras. 1969, Drama, 1h 40m. [She believes the three characters—Thor, Stein, and Alissa—are in fact interchangeable. Read it, then read it again. Enmeshed in ritualistic power games, they continuously exchange personalities as each acts out his own ambiguous charades. After all the characters we see are in an existential limbo, a comfort zone, staying in a hotel in the countryside that seems to be outside things somehow. Nothing. Marguerite had two older siblings: Pierre, the eldest, and Paul. And like sleep-walkers, they spiral around and around eachother, under the sun and sound of the tennis courts, on the edge of the wood that none quite seem able to enter or pass through. 0 Reviews Fewer than 50 Ratings You might also like. I’ve read many times and will probably read it again. Oh Marguerite. She said's proposal is about youth, spirituality and music. She said, Destroy. Also available in the iTunes Store Sign in to vote. A couple years ago I was living in a basement suite, a bachelor pad, a single room with a half wall that divided the kitchen from the living and sleeping room and then a full wall that separated the kitchen from the bathroom, which was given the dignity of having its own door. An old lady, settled in the colonies, comes to Paris to visit her son, a man of fifty, whom she has not seen for ten years. 20 of 23 people found this review helpful. Chapter One : Rebirth. DESTROY SHE SAID. There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Or is it about the breakdown of our class society? In French with new subtitles by Spectacle. This tells a strangely compelling story of two women in a suburban home who are listening to radio news broadcasts about a missing child in their area. Nadia Bulkin’s stories are equally at home in Southeast Asia and Midwest America, and all bring a cogent sociopolitical bite of one sort or another. Destroy, She Said is a 1969 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras based on her book of the same title in French (Dét Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. As always in Duras, the plot lies below the surface and requires the sustained attention of the reader. DESTROY, SHE SAID Détruire dit-elle. In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. "Cold Summer". 4 Tracks. "I head up an International Police Task Force, which includes all member nations. Included in this volume is an in-depth interview with Marguerite Duras by Jacques Rivette and Jean Narboni. There are three characters who réside in a hôtel, or is it an asylum? Possibly because she is a lady. I am not saying this isn't cinema but I did not recognize this kind of work as cinema. This is just the kind of book I wouldn't get through if any longer. You're part of me [...] And I don't know you. Drama. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Circ - Destroy She Said at Discogs. I've read quite a few now, and Destroy, She Said would probably be up there hovering around my top five. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877-1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872-1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. I died. Just beyond, the woods, always the woods, a lure, a threat, a veil, a plot unfulfilled but tantalizing. At the end of her stay, the husband of the woman arrives to take her home. Like many of Duras’s novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. How it happened didn't strike me as important. Tracklist . It was a good place to live, despite its size and the lack of light, and in spite of the settling airs which held back escaping smells of the kitchen. “...a hypnotic film about five alienated people isolated in an otherworldly hotel. Title: Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. Destroy She Said, an EP by Destroy She Said. The story of a middle-class couple whose lives are drastically transformed by two men and a woman. Yeah - I was engrossed, and then just grossed. Writer: Joe Corallo Artist: Liana Kangas Colorist: Rebecca Nalty Letterer: Melanie Ujimori Publisher: Vault Comics When we forget the old Gods, we lose them forever. Duras is at great pains here to create, despite her very specific sense of urgency, as open and destabilized a narrative as she can. Into that darkness / Into that darkness / Like jackals howling / Like flowers unfolding / Into that darkness / Into that darkness / The banners in tatters / The virgin is blessed / Into The effect is quite overpowering, I felt like reaching out and touching Max's blazer, like kissing Alissa (I have never felt that way in a movie). Détruire, dit-elle (English, Destroy, She Said) is a 1969 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras based on her book of the same title. THE Queen paid an emotional farewell to her late husband Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, during his funeral on Saturday.Due to Covid restriction Stein is the master, Alissa his Stradivarius, Elisabeth a psychological weakling, becoming a golem, Max Thor Stein's henchman. While she expertly elicited memorable performances from … I avoided making curries. Explain lyrics. Like many of Duras's novels, Destroy, She Said owes much to cinema, displaying a skillful interplay of dialogue and description. The witches of Fey are the last believers of The Morrigan, Goddess of Death, Brigid's sister and the only other God left. Submit review. Destroy She Said discography and songs: Music profile for Destroy She Said. 10? There are recurring moods and motifs from the Duras repertoire: eroticism, lassitude, stifled desire, a beautiful woman, a mysterious forest, a desolate provincial hotel. Occasionally, the director comments about the ... See full summary ». Become a Fan Remove Fan. She said's proposal is about youth, spirituality and music. Silence. I love Duras's style, but I just don't get it. She Said Destroy Over millennia, Brigid, Goddess of the Sun, has conquered and converted the entire solar system into worshipping her and her alone, save one space colony. 2,159 likes. The life of Anne-Marie Stretter, wife of ambassador to India circa 1930. 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