a.c. rodríguez

I'm getting to the post I said I'd do. It's about "Yo Soy Betty, La Fea."  I leave this excerpt from "Une Saison en Enfer" or "A Season in Hell" by Arthur Rimbaud:  "Délire II: Alchimie du verbe"  trans. by me. À moi.  L'histoire d'une de mes folies.  Depuis longtemps, je me vantais de posséder tous les paysages possibles, et trouvais dérisoires les célébrités de la peinture et de la poésie modernes. J'aimais les peintures idiotes, dessus de porte, décors, toiles de saltimbanques, enseignes, enluminures populaires ; la littérature démodée, latin d'église, livres, érotiques sans orthographe, romans de nos aïeules, contes de fées, petits livres de l'enfance, opéras vieux, refrains niais, rythmes naïfs. Je rêvais croisades, voyages de découvertes dont on n'a pas de relations, républiques sans histoires, guerres de religion étouffées, révolutions de mœurs, déplacement de races et de continents ; je croyais à tous l...

From " Monster (Kaibutsu 怪物)" dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda This is not the post I've been planning on for some time, but, I'd like to post it and save the other for next week or the following. My Storygraph Giveaway ends on the 19th and with certain politics here in USA I do have a review about an artwork that speaks more closely to my own home and my art (current and as-yet-unreleased) than this one. Surprisingly, it's not the humiliating-to-Latin-Americans 2024's "Emilia Pérez:" I don't want to talk about that egregore, even to criticize, though it's tempting; I don't want to feed it. No, I've been planning a review of an old kitschy Colombian artwork, nothing to do with narcos and exploitable violence, in a funny format that's made a come-back. But, I do want to make this post about "Monster (Kaibutsu 怪物)" now. This is also an important topic. Introduction   It's award-season and MUBI offered me three months of subscr...