Some further thoughts on innocence:
Jean Renoir talking to James Blue in 1970:
“I am very bad at casting. I am very bad, and sometimes to be bad helps me. In the way that I am attracted by a certain innocence. I am afraid of clichés, tricks. I am afraid of repeating situations we already saw on screen. People with not too much skill sometimes help me to keep a kind of – I use a very ambitious word, excuse me – to keep a kind of innocence”
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Renoir loved Andy Warhol
Be a standing cinema
Dress my friends up
just for show
See them as they really are
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The question remains: How to film innocence? How translate a feeling into film without manipulating it? (stupid thoughts)
but the camera poisons
scene/obscene
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L’AMOUR “MONSTRE” DE TOUS LES TEMPS – Walerian Borowczyk