I continue this journey of bringing the best from the realms of music, cinema, encapsulating a world of culture, with this reprise of A LETTERED SOUL.
Let this journey begin with a melody of words and the constancy of thoughts.
There are many ways to bring the primal energy of war to the spotlight without exploiting it for just a few fragments. ROSA ROSAE by Spanish director Carlos Saura is one of the more humble and humane efforts at accessing an idea of wartime and its present residue.
That residual model is traced through a heartrending cancione(song) in the Spanish language, listening to which you realise profoundly that knowing a particular spoken tongue comes second to the emotional transference of vulnerability, survival and a passage to safety delivered through an art-form. Jose Antonio Labordeta's sinuous voice is the narrative device and central motif here. It becomes powerful along with the smudged and distorted nature of these charcoal-coloured sketches, presented as visceral components of archived imagery.
A classroom, faces of children and dead army men trace a movement through history and individual recollection that becomes a collective scar. ROSA ROSAE is an elegy that's universal owing to the manner in which it is presented in a runtime of just five minutes.
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YOU'VE GOT BEAUTIFUL STAIRS, YOU KNOW (1986)
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