This week I was rather anxious about a lot of changes going on around me, so I was really restless and unsatisfied with most of the films I tried to watch. That led to several false starts I abandoned quickly out of disinterest or contempt - like, for instance, the Mélanie Laurent-starring thriller Requiem pour une tueuse

This was a week of pre-Summer holiday goodbyes and birthday celebrations (countless people I know were born in July), not to mention the Country’s National Day. As usual, I’ll have an urban August, working until the time everyone comes back complaining they have to go back to work.

If I could go back in time and give precious life advice to my former self, I would challenge his belief that the best film adaptations are the ones most faithful to the book by showing him the two versions of Ringu.

I admire all the great weeknotes posts I see appearing in my feedreader, and I wonder where you find the time and energy to keep track of the things you do and read - and then to write about them.

Like the great Italian poet Francesco Petrarca wrote in 1348, La vita fugge et non s’arresta una hora,
et la morte vien dietro a gran giornate; life flies by, never stopping for a moment, and death follows at great speed.

As I prepare for what most probably will be my Third Big Life Shake-up, The Universe is breaking its silence to discreetly show support for a decision that not everybody understands. Of course, it does this via the art of Cinema.