Immortal
At least 99.9% of the interest is visual, but I'm very visual so I forgive it :-D Fun to watch - it mixes Poser-ish 3d characters with human actors. This French film from 2004 is set in a cyberpunk distopia - the future New York - with styling that seems based on the Chrysler Building.
At the end she is reading Les fleur du Mal, which is always a pleasure to thumb through (in a surfing kind of thumbing).
Spleen
I have more memories than if I'd lived a thousand years.
A heavy chest of drawers cluttered with balance-sheets,
Processes, love-letters, verses, ballads,
And heavy locks of hair enveloped in receipts,
Hides fewer secrets than my gloomy brain.
It is a pyramid, a vast burial vault
Which contains more corpses than potter's field.
— I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon,
In which long worms crawl like remorse
And constantly harass my dearest dead.
I am an old boudoir full of withered roses,
Where lies a whole litter of old-fashioned dresses,
Where the plaintive pastels and the pale Bouchers,
Alone, breathe in the fragrance from an opened phial.
When under the heavy flakes of snowy years
Ennui, the fruit of dismal apathy,
Becomes as large as immortality.
— Henceforth you are no more, O living matter!
Than a block of granite surrounded by vague terrors,
Dozing in the depths of a hazy Sahara
An old sphinx ignored by a heedless world,
Omitted from the map, whose savage nature
Sings only in the rays of a setting sun.
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Comments:
Thank you for posting this, I wasn't aware of it, in spite of being an avid follower of Enki Bilal's bizarre bandes desinées in the French magazine Pilote during the 1970s. I assume the film is adapted from his story La foire aux immortels, the first volume of the Nikopol trilogy. Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verlaine are always such sensual reads.
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