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watching cinema as a representation of love

Atonement- Robbie scrambles down a ladder and finds himself at the foot of a giant screen where the huge face, full of doomed melancholy, of Jean Gabin leans forward to kiss the shining lips of Michèle Morgan in Quai des Brumes. As Gabin kisses her a second time, Robbie, dwarfed by the enormous black-and-white image, buries his face in his hands.

La La Land- …Everything here glows with the warmth of old 16mm home movies… These are memories, fluttering by, grabbed at random – and yet all concocted, dreamed up out of nothing…

Inglourious Basterds- Shosanna stares down the packed house of Nazis and says in french: “I have a message for Germany. That you’re all going to die.” Hitler and Goebbels react. Hirschberg reacts. Marcel smiles.

Cinema Paradiso- Salvatore is overwhelmed, moved to tears. It is the most profound act of love he has ever seen. He laughs as tears shine in his eyes. Up on the screen, another kiss, the last kiss marking the happy ending of a film. And the age-old words appear ‘THE END’.