Night Drifting

L'errance nocturne - March 10, 2016

So I probably needed to say this: I delve. I've come to the conviction that delving is necessary. A conviction so strong that it hasn't just stayed there, like a New Year’s resolution, but that I actually do this, I delve. Here, with you. So I keep delving. Why Antonioni of the trilogy, why Ozu, Satyajit Ray, and why do I associate them in the same recollection. In this excavation endeavor, I sometimes unearth keys that seem to fit all three, sometimes only one or the other. This time the key comes from here. I like it, it seems to work only at Antonioni’s door, but surely more digging will be needed. It's no longer about Antonioni's interest in spatial abstraction - admit it, it was beautiful nonetheless - but about the notion of 'night wandering film'. Well yes, that's lovely too. It includes La Notte, it applies to Mulholland Drive, it partly explains why I had a great time with Quand je ne dors pas.