Brian

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Maybe one of the later films mentioned in the book is most apt - My Dinner with André where nothing much happens but there is beauty and entertainment in just listening to two people talk. The reason, in my style of writing, is often a question of balance, the desire not to weigh down the reader with gratuitous information.

Brian by Jeremy Cooper — Books on the Hill Brian by Jeremy Cooper — Books on the Hill

In Brian zien we het gelijknamige hoofdpersonage evolueren van een gesloten, eenzaam persoon, naar een mens met (weliswaar beperkte) sociale interactie en een breed wereldbeeld.With an effort he managed to clear his head of unwanted family memories and continued on into Kentish Town Road. This book is deeply sensitive to the ebb and flow of relationships over time and the way love is disguised, expressed and experienced, and it achieves that elusive dream of all authors and finds new meaning in the recording of life.

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Eastwood, who directed as well as starred, spent much of the film in the saddle and for this feat of skill and endurance promptly became Brian’s movie idol. Thanks to a friendship he develops with one of the group—ten years of after-film chatter leads to an invitation to tea—Brian develops a better-informed awareness of soundtracks and their composers.Over three decades, a mother and her artist daughter communicate only by letters, excavating their relationship as it evolves with melancholic, astute precision. He had joined a book-reading club, mostly of women, jolly, middle-aged, who ridiculed his proposals of novels to read, listened in silence to his halting comments on the book-of-the-month and moved promptly on to topics of their own concern. Dit boek laat zich traag opnemen, maar biedt een schat aan informatie en sluit qua stijl perfect aan bij de Britse films uit de jaren tachtig en vroege jaren negentig.