Continuing my interest in the oeuvre and personality of "the divine Dalí," I came across and watched the Spanish-British co-production art film "Little Ashes" (2008), which brilliantly reveals the dual nature of intimate relationships - spiritual closeness and sexuality. These two aspects are not always acceptable to both parties, and this can physically separate those who are close, but it certainly does not prevent mutual enrichment and the enjoyment of each other's presence.
I noticed this film during the White Night and the day before yesterday found it online to watch carefully from opening to closing credits. The film fascinated me and made me think - why do people need spoken language, if everything can be expressed through facial expression, gesture, a glance, sound, music and dance? The body does not lie even when the spoken words are pure pretence.
What fascinates me is this family's idyll - the romance-filled relationship between the head of the household Gomez and his wife Morticia, the tenderness and love shielded from the influence of passing years and the judgements of surrounding society. This little family seems to exist outside the daily rush, pettiness, materialism and the changes of the surrounding world.
There are films that speak to you, and there are those that don't. "Elegy" (Elegy, 2008) is one of the former. Not so much for the age-old revelation that love knows no age, but for the aching sense of loneliness - the loneliness that a person consciously or unconsciously chooses for themselves.
It so happens that we live in an age when various speculations follow one after another. This film is precisely about that. A kind of sequel to Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code." The film is divided into three parts, and we decided to share some impressions and facts about each part separately.
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