Dan Conley’s Writing Projects

This section takes us through four days of Delphine’s odd, improvisational vacation, and up to about the halfway point in the movie. In begins on Sunday, July 21 with her still in Cherbourg. Her friend is about to leave, returning to Paris, and the original plan was for Delphine

One of the interesting things about Delphine, the trait that distinguishes her from most people who suffer from depression, is that she doesn’t put a lot of energy into masking. A sad fact about being sad is that most people try so hard to pretend that they aren’t

This will be a relatively short section, because I’ll be completing the day that began with with dockside flirtation. I do need to clear something up before I do that — the movie actually jumped ahead 10 days in the last part. We are not on July 8, but rather

All of the little flashes of story that appeared in the last section now get confirmed in this one. The last segment ended with Delphine defusing her increasingly-heated personal discussion with Beatrice by bringing up her relationship with Jean-Pierre. It seemed to do the trick. There’s just one problem

As I mentioned in part 1, “The Green Ray” has risen in stature since it was released in the mid 80s. This has happened while much of Rohmer’s body of work has faded a bit from cinema history. Two of his moral tales films, “My Night at Maud’s”

I was spoiled by opening scenes in the movies of my youth. The turning point year for me was 1977. I saw “Rocky” early that year, a movie that barely let you into your seats before tossing you right into the ring for a fight with Rocky Balboa. Soon after