Beginning the Beguine". I've been asked why no recent posts? I have no excuse, so I'll "begin the beguine."
The weather was rainy last week and fall's showing it's fantastic colors. The hurricanes across the Atlantic are bringing us rain, and wind, and thunder, and lightning, but it's the wind that can be so scary.

Last Saturday, rented 2 films that turned out to be completely two poles apart and it was unintentional. The first film I had wanted to see forever. It takes place in Galicia, Spain not far from where I live. It's a region I love, and less than an hour away, and if I spoke better Spanish would move there in a second. In the iron age, the whole area was occupied by the Celts. There are many existing "castros," round hut villages from the ancient times. The bagpipe is played there, still. Andre says that the bagpipe was played in Viana do Castelo in the past, too. We even speak a very similar language, Galego and Portuguese are very similar and understandable. Remember the film "Pharmacratic Inquisition" They spoke about Finisterra and the winter solstice, well it's located in the same Galicia. And it was there, in Finisterra that Stephanie cut her finger.
The film, because of it's "heavy" subject matter, I needed to be in a good frame of mind. The film, It turned out to be the most fantastic that I have seen in along time. It deserved the "Oscar". So poetic and so real and natural. Even in the way people communicated in the film, it never seemed like acting. It's a film about euthanasia. Now you know what the name of the film is, "Mar Adentro" the sea inside. Rent it and you, too, will float inside, outside, and all around the beautiful dialogue and music and story line. It's not depressing at all. A artistically beautiful story of love, and family, and compassion, and obligation, and sexiness, and more. And it really happened.

The second film was on the opposite spectrum, about wanting to live and helping to save a life in the name of love with our Italian Charlie Chaplin, Roberto Begninni. "Tiger and the Snow" has some funny scenes, but it is not as profound as the first film. I must say that Spain, today, has some outstanding directors. Art in Spain should be considered. The Spanish are very cultured and love life and are appreciative of art and it shows when you go into Spain, which I love to do.