Carlos Alvarez Las Heras Spanish, b. 1982
55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
"The umbrellas of Cherbourg" is about an impossible love. One of the recurring plot locations is the Bar du Port, in which the couple in love profess eternal love. The place is also frequented by sailors of all kinds and prostitutes, harbinger of the terrible end.The first impression is shocking: posing a romantic scene in a place of perversion. However, the interpretation that the sailors, after so long and far from home, stop in that place in search of affection, and even that the main character, in another scene of the film (spiteful for the abandonment of his fiancée) go to that same bar to look for lost love, changed the perspective and I found it very interesting. It's not just sex what they are looking for, and sex is not the only thing offered there. You can see it in the characters' attitude: some are passionately kissing, others just lost in thought -like the top right character who isjust contemplating a bird on his shoulder- or the handcuffed that pays homage to The Odyssey, in which Odysseus and the rest of the passage are tied to escape alive from the song of sirens.The only one that meets the stereotype of the brothel would be the central man that, still embraced by a woman, looks for another to her left.
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