“I would live in a city, without trees or wind.” — Anne Desbarèdes Alain Robbe-Grillet had launched the nouveau roman in France, and Marguerite Düras became part of that movement with her 1958 Moderato cantabile—her literary rebirth, since her previous fiction was conventional. Britain’s Peter Brook, of all people, directed the film version from a […]
Daily Archives: July 18, 2009
Over time, three concentric circles of relationships help to determine the fate of the marriage of high school teacher Lam Yiu-Kwok and Man-Ching. The middle-aged couple in Hong Kong have two teenaged sons, one in high school, the other in college. In the first of the three circles are Man-Ching and her lover, Shing, a […]