With #Chabruary now expired (but #Marchabrol activated) we move to #MARvynlLeroy , sampling the pre-code collection now on the Criterion channel. Three zingers already in the bank.
Later in the month, #Silent2026 gets into full flow with the online portion of Hippfest. Who needs Easter?
#Chabruary gloom is on hold as I attend this. I may even laugh a bit.
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Hitchcock has the jagged tones of Herrmann, Chabrol defaults to sinister chamber music. It's all about the quotidian, the unarticulated, yet she knows he knows she knows... Adultery is mundane, yet it unhinges the complacency of the framework that validates it. Chillingly subversive.
#Chabruary #2
Erotic , seemingly about love, but in 1968 the theme is power. Power exacted by the bourgeoisie (Audran at her haughtiest, Trintignant the shit) over all around them. Lovers are toys, friendships are tossed aside, feelings of others are barely acknowledged. Something has to give.
#Chabruary #1
My snail-like progress through world cinema continues, with extensions from Jan to #Japannum2026 and #Barbstannum2026. Additions this month are #Chabruary and #Silent2026. Other background obsessions also continuing slowly…. nothing can go wrong now.
Yum, I shall be rewatching during #Chabruary or #Marchabrol
I’m definitely now set on a #Chabruary, likely to extend into a #Marchab. Japan can’t be fitted into a month either, so that’s going to be extended into #Japannum2026.
