Last night/this morning

The conjunction of these distinct, temporally successive elements imparts a sense of wonder: the first adventure (the blue hour) in Eric Rohmer’s Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle; the fogged windows of the bus in the early morning darkness pierced only by occasional headlights; the opening minutes of Joseph Suchy’s Calab Miu effortlessly complementing the first three chapters of Julio Cortazar’s Hopscotch.


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