Never Any End to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas & Anne McLean

Author:Enrique Vila-Matas & Anne McLean [Vila-Matas, Enrique & McLean, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811218139
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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A month and half after that night, Petra turned up at my garret again and, to keep her from staying there, after paying her back the money, I invited her to the cinema; as luck would have it, the film I chose happened to illustrate, in a disturbing way, what had gone on between us that night in the garret with the teddy bear, that night a month and a half ago when she was my money order and my whore and I her fleeting visitor and pimp and big shot.

“How about we go see a film by Benoît Jacquot, a friend from the neighborhood,” I said. It was true Jacquot lived a few steps from my house, but his being my friend was somewhat more dubious. I’d seen him for a few minutes at Paloma Picasso’s party. And on one single other occasion, that time at Duras’s house, where he’d come with his wife, Martine Simonet.

L’assasin musicien starred Anna Karina, Joël Bion and the inestimable veteran — always in secondary role — Howard Vernon, who worked with Arrieta and was a keen supporter of young or risky filmmakers. Jacquot’s film had an austere style, influenced by the cinema of Bresson and Duras, a slow rhythm, with sober and, to tell the truth, rather clumsy dialogue. Martine Simonet had a very small part, which seemed a glaring injustice to me.

e film was an adaptation of an unfinished story by Dostoyevsky that Jacquot set in Paris: the tale of a young violinist from the provinces who, convinced he has an exceptional talent for music, leaves the city of his birth to conquer the capital, where he doesn’t get hired by any of the orchestras in which he tries to get a place. is leads him to declare he’s not working because he’s not interested in sharing his exceptional genius with the modest players of the world’s orchestras, no matter how good they are. He considers himself the best violinist in the world and walks around the streets of Paris, staring with a strange mixture of conceit and envy at the billboards advertising concerts in the city and ends up with no option but to pimp out a poor servant girl (Anna Karina) who takes him in to her modest chambre de bonne because she’s fallen in love with him — not with an arrogant, unemployed provincial musician, but with the poor, pathetic wretch she’s found stumbling around the city saying he’s the best violinist in the world.

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