17
Seven Day
Rental
One of my
students borrowed
La Ma/son du Plus Pied
by Jean-Pierre D'Allard,
telling the rise, fall
of the Sainte Bouviers,
ensnared by riches,
hatreds spawned
and business won, lost,
won & lost.
She recounts her favourite scene
towards the end,
where a liberated Marie
slaps the face
of her brutal husband, Serge,
played by an aging
Stephane DeJohnette.
It's the one-eighty,
the turning point for both characters,
the moment where love
drops its transcendence,
its fixed and static state.
I think Anise, my student,
sporting occasional welts
that I ask nothing about,
has found a muse
to lift her trampled spirit
as she says
"the film, the film."
Yes it is such.