& the daughter, overdue, is needing me to get her to Taber to do her driver's test. Cold day, windswept, grey and snowy, and Taber, all of a single story at it's highest point, every shop window blacked out against the relentless summer sun, wide streets that offer no shade, a tired thrift shop with nothing of value, killing an hour while she does her test, an hour in Taber is like a week anywhere else in the world, not a single independent coffee house, the hour runs slowly through the glass and it's time to leave...
I don't know if I've ever been so glad to get out a place before, ever.
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Rather like his work, brooding, atmospheric, and I admire him for generally not painting faces. The people - alien, distant, there's a tension in their action, in their turning from the painter. Brilliant.
Links: Wikipedia on Vilhelm Hammershoi & a BBC article
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Interesting.
Link: The Strange Life of the Modlins
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=telLFt6bOKs
And an abundance of trailers: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a+story+for+the+modlins+watch+online
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