The Pillow Book
Peter Greenaway
Goran Bregovic

“The keeping of pillow books to record poems, secrets, and encounters with lovers was a common practice of noble women in Heian Japan. Although its content is unrelated to the film, a famous example was written by Sei Shonagon at about the same time as Lady Murasaki’s The Tale of Genji which has the honor of being the world’s first novel. In fact, it has been said that Sei Shonogon and Lady Murasaki were rivals in the court of Heian.”

“O cinema não é o melhor veículo para contar histórias. É específico demais, deixa muito pouco espaço para a imaginação levantar vôo fora das indicações estritas do diretor. Leia “ele entrou na sala” e imagine mil encenações. Veja “ele entrou na sala” no cinema-como-o-conhecemos e você ficará limitado a uma única encenação. O cinema tem a ver com outras coisas que não a narração. O que você lembra de um bom filme - e vamos falar apenas de bons filmes - não é a história, mas uma experiência especial e quem sabe única que tem a ver com atmosfera, ambiência, performance, estilo, uma atitude emocional, gestos, fatos isolados, uma experiência audiovisual específica que não depende da história.”
- Peter Greenaway

“The film has written and spoken dialogue in twenty-five languages-English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Latin, Hebrew, necrotic Egyptian … and it has written calligraphic text on paper, wood, and flesh, on flat and curved surfaces, vertically and horizontally, on both living and dead flesh, in neon, on screens, in projection, as sub-title, inter-title, and sur-title, as High Art and low art, as advertisement and banker’s check and registration plate, on photograph, on blackboard, as letter correspondence, as photocopy facsimile, and spoken, chanted, and sung, with and without music … a mocking challenge. You want text? Cinema wants text? Cinema pretends to eschew text? Then we can give you text to mock that smug suggestion that cinema thinks it is pictures.”
- Peter Greenaway

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