Saturday, December 15, 2018

Saturday commute clxi: Holidays against type






    The phrase throttles the throat
    which utters it, as humiliating
    tautology. Yet, we can imagine
    characters in Forster, wandering
    from pensione to pensione, in a
    cocoon, wrapped up in a gondola,
    on a single, cluttered canal, ex-
    periencing that extraction which
    the holiday must be, as a restor-
    ation of timidity. Slip Maggie
    Smith into the craft, and you'd
    almost row for free. Someone has
    to substitute for Helena Bonham
    Carter, who leapt out, oars ago.
    Watch the film again. I've been.
    It doesn't go so far as Venice,
    but it does suggest, one might. 
























James Ivory
  director
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  screenwriter
E.M. Forster
  author
Ismail Merchant
  producer
Goldcrest et al, 1986©








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