{"id":21117,"date":"2013-07-10T07:35:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=21117"},"modified":"2021-06-04T14:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T21:21:17","slug":"celeste-la-captive-and-proust-questionnaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/07\/10\/celeste-la-captive-and-proust-questionnaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Celeste, La Captive and Proust Questionnaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3hVEjVdLH78\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nCeleste <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1982\/10\/06\/movies\/celeste-a-memoir-of-proust.html\">&#8221;CELESTE,&#8217;&#8230;.<\/a> is a small-scale, remarkable little film based on &#8221;Mr. Proust.&#8221; This is the memoir of Celeste Albaret who, for nine years before Proust died in 1922, was his cook, companion, secretary, friend and surrogate mother during the creation of &#8221;Remembrance of Things Past.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click to see large <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1Lacaptive-2000-04-g.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1Lacaptive-2000-04-g-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1Lacaptive-2000-04-g\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1Lacaptive-2000-04-g-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1Lacaptive-2000-04-g-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/1Lacaptive-2000-04-g.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>La Captive by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2008\/05\/06\/chantal-akerman\/\">Chantal Akerman <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2001\/apr\/16\/artsfeatures\">Review here<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The second reason is that Akerman&#8217;s austere but excellent film removes all Proust&#8217;s softening diversions. Gone are the reflections on art and memory, as well as a 100-page musical soir\u00e9e. This is Proust without the costume drama, without wit or social comedy, but with his vision of love as possession accentuated. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p>Marcel Proust by Nadar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1marcelproust_16anni_nadar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1marcelproust_16anni_nadar-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"1marcelproust_16anni_nadar\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-24625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1marcelproust_16anni_nadar-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1marcelproust_16anni_nadar.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a> (Click to see large)  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/proustsaidthat\">Infamous Proust questionnaire<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?<br \/>\n    To be separated from Mama<br \/>\nWhere would you like to live?<br \/>\n    In the country of the Ideal, or, rather, of my ideal<br \/>\nWhat is your idea of earthly happiness?<br \/>\n    To live in contact with those I love, with the beauties of nature, with a quantity of books and music, and to have, within easy distance, a French theater<br \/>\nTo what faults do you feel most indulgent?<br \/>\n    To a life deprived of the works of genius<br \/>\nWho are your favorite heroes of fiction?<br \/>\n    Those of romance and poetry, those who are the expression of an ideal rather than an imitation of the real  &#8211; (continues&#8230;>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/proustsaidthat\">Proust said that<\/a> (Web Project) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1aaaCatemps2x-e1562808933512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/1aaaCatemps2x-e1562808933512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"424\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34662\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLFOj7clKsE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-F98knpuRQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Raoulruiz1.jpg\" alt=\"Raoulruiz1\" title=\"Raoulruiz1\" width=\"488\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Raoulruiz1.jpg 488w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Raoulruiz1-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/><br \/>\nTime Regained.. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2011\/08\/19\/raul-ruiz-r-i-p\/\">Raul Ruiz &#8211; see previous<\/a> post) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celeste &#8221;CELESTE,&#8217;&#8230;. is a small-scale, remarkable little film based on &#8221;Mr. Proust.&#8221; This is the memoir of Celeste Albaret who, for nine years before Proust died in 1922, was his cook, companion, secretary, friend and surrogate mother during the creation of &#8221;Remembrance of Things Past.&#8221; Click to see large La Captive by Chantal Akerman Review &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2013\/07\/10\/celeste-la-captive-and-proust-questionnaire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Celeste, La Captive and Proust Questionnaire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-cinema","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}