Pipistrella's Film Review: CRÍA CUERVOS /RAISE RAVENS (1975)


The title of this film comes from the Spanish proverb"Raise ravens, and they will pluck out your eyes."(Cría cuervos y te sacarán los ojos)
In this deeply subversive master piece, Carlos Saura evokes both the complex feelings of a repressed childhood and the problematic relations within a repressed nation (Spain during Franco's last days)... Freedom becomes possible only when all unpleasant authorities e.g. patriarchal figures have died. Click CRIA CUERVOS Video

Pipistrella's Film Review: MEDITERRANEO (1991)


In times of war...and peace... escape seems to be the best way of living:
A group of eight Italian soldiers arrives to a Greek island. There they remain completely isolated from the rest of the war-torn world and continue living happily together with the locals of the "ocuppied" island...
GoTo MEDITERRANEO Clip

Pipistrella's Film Review: MAR ADENTRO - THE SEA INSIDE (2004)


Based on real facts of life of Ramon Sampedro, a sailor who after an accident in his youth is left tetraplegic. Ramon (brillantly played by Javier Bardem) remains tied to a bed during near 30 years and wishes to "die with dignity" or as he says:"I consider life to be a right, not an obligation". Ramon "managed to die" but away from his home and illegally... The SEA INSIDE /MAR ADENTRO is a film about a very difficult topic of death by euthanasia. Nevertheless, it is a film that celebrates life.

click MAR ADENTRO VIDEO click A POEM by RAMON SAMPEDRO VIDEO

Pipistrella's Film Review: IL POSTINO (1995)


IL POSTINO is loosely based on the novel "El cartero de Neruda" by Antonio Skármeta from Chile [a grandson of a family who immigrated there from Dalmatia:-)]. The film is full of lyrical tenderness and quietness and a magnificent Mediterranean scenery... A simple man Mario(Massimo Troisi) in his search for love discovers poetry and finds his teacher in Pablo Neruda. Pablo tries to convince Mario that poets are just humans and he says: "We poets are all fat." click Il Postino Video2

JOAN MANUEL SERRAT:"Reivindico el realismo de soñar..."

Te le doy Fw a Serrat, de mi época pero aún se escucha. Ojalá y te guste.
Me pareció fabuloso el vídeo del Festival de Verano en Dubrovnik. ¡Quién pudiera!
Un abrazo,
Marilín
Queridos/as:
Los que estamos en los 60+, consideramos a Joan Manuel Serrat como un portavoz de lo que soñábamos y anhelábamos cuando completábamos nuestros grados universitarios. (Algunos/as no hemos dejado de soñar.) Los/as de ustedes que no estén tan viejos, también han tarareado sus hermosos cánticos a la Vida(...)
Mi abrazo,
Félix Miguel

"...Reinvidico valores como la libertad y la justicia, como un algo único, pues no hay libertad sin justicia, ni justicia sin libertad. Lo hago frente frente a la preponderancia aplastante del dinero, valor supremo por el que se miden y se valoran las cosas y las gentes. Reinvidico la justicia y la libertad porque reivindico la vida. Reivindico a la humanidad en su sentido tan amplio. Reivindico a los seres humanos y a la naturaleza que nos acoge y de la que formamos parte. Reivindico el realismo de soñar en un futuro en el que la vida sea mejor y las relaciones mas justas, mas ricas y positivas y siempre en paz y sobre todo, como un derecho que todo lo condiciona. Reivindico el conocimiento como el pilar fundamental que nos sustenta y que nos caracteriza positivamente como especie. Que esto sea digno de reconocimiento es algo que debería hacernos reflexionar acerca del mundo en que vivimos y de los valores que lo mueven..."Serrat(de su discurso de aceptación de un grado honorífico de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Click SERRAT WEB Click AQUELLAS COSAS BLOG

Dubrovacke Ljetne Igre - Dubrovnik Summer Festival (10 July -25 August)



Maro's Film Review: SPACEBALLS (1987)


U jednoj od svojih najboljih parodija na popularne filmove - Spaceballs (1987), parodiji na Zvjezdane ratove(Star Wars), americki komicar Mel Brooks je za omiljeni SF motiv gigantskog destruktivnog oruzja upotrijebio zenu s usisivacem. Svemirska stanica "zlog imperija" u kljucnom se trenutku pretvara u robota-zenu (Mega-maid) koja "usisava" zrak s napadnutog planeta. U procesu transformacije i konacnog pada dijelova eksplodiranog robota na nepoznatu plazu, poigrava se i sa slikom statue Slobode na ulazu u New York, odnosno sa zavrsnim prizorima kultnog filma Planet majmuna (1968). Click MEGA-MAID Video

NEW YORK CITY GROOVE


"In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in the City and 36 percent of its population was foreign born."

I lived in NYC almost 2 years and I'll never forget its vibes.
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Maro's Film Review : THE SON OF THE SHEIK (1926)


U mnogobrojnim proslim i sadasnjim kulturama diljem svijeta, muski oblik skrivanja identiteta bilo je nosenje maske, ali i pravog vela, odnosno tkanine koja pokriva sve osim ociju. Mozda je privlacnost vela ono sto je od Rudolpha Valentina napravilo neprevladanu fantazmu. Rijec je o njegovoj ulozi u "The Son of The Sheik" (1926). U scenama koje danas mogu izgledati komicno, oteta djevojka pada u nesvjest od strasti dok Valentino znalacki skida ili ponovno stavlja dio svog arapskog turbana preko usta.
Click The Son of The Sheik Video

"GENDER TROUBLE"


Americka grupa s pompeznim (i parodickim) imenom Les Ballets de Trockadero de Monte Carlo, nastala je u sedamdesetim godinama proslog stoljeca u New Yorku, sasvim "off-off Broadway". Ova iskljucivo muska grupa parodirala je klasicni balet. Danas je znana po imenu Trocks i ima mlade plesace i najbolje ruske uciteljice baleta koje dolari mogu kupiti. Program je i dalje parodija, ali i nesto vise. Zele dokazati da i musko tijelo moze izvoditi ono sto je strogi klasicni balet zamislio i ostvario s iskljucivo zenskim tijelom.(Maro)click TROCKS Video

500 Years of Female Portraits

The Island of Lopud: Art Pavilion (June 20 to October 31, 2007)




As a part of the symposium "Patronage of Space", the critically acclaimed light installation /click/ "Your Black Horizon Art Pavillon"(the 51st Venise Biennale) by Danish-Icelandic artist /click/Olafur Eliasson, made in collaboration with London-based architect David Adjaye, has arrived to the Island of Lopud, Dubrovnik. "This distinctive location allows the artist and architect to test the conceptual nature of the project: to develop art and the spaces for art with respect for the site they inhabit. Embedded in an historic context, Lopud’s rich Renaissance heritage and lively tourist development, the pavilion is a model for art destination travel and contemporary interventions. The challenge is to make a portable and temporary museum, which sits comfortably in its surrounding natural site." And in which the color of the light changes spectrum according to the time of day, from sunrise to sunset.
Lopud is a precious little island of Mediterannean and subtropic vegetation, cypress and pine parks and citrus gardens. Lopud has always been an island of sea. Many highly reputed seamen were born there among which the illustrious captain Miho Pracat (known as the only person to whom the Republic of Dubrovnik built a statue, since the cult of a person was not popular in the Republic).

VENEZUELA: The Mangroves of Isla de Margarita



Just 25 miles off the cost of Venezuela or just a 40 minute flight from Caracas there is a beautiful island of Margarita.

"Columbus landed here on his third voyage in 1498, and every self-respecting pirate marauded here at least once in his career, giving rise to numerous forts around the island(Castillo de San Carlos de Borromeo (1664), Fortin Santiago de la Caranta (1596) and Castillo de Santa Rosa La Asunción)."
Apart from the amazing sandy beaches, one of the most precious beauty of Margarita are the mangroves of /click/LAGUNA DE LA RESTRINGA NATIONAL PARK. The "Park" consists of 25,000 acres of wetlands on the isthmus that connects Macanao Peninsula and east Margarita Island. The park is home to a variety of flora and fauna including Margarita's cottontail rabbit, white-tailed deer, ocelots, sea turtles and 107 bird species.
Often called the "rainforests of the sea," mangroves once dominated the coasts of tropical countries. However, in the past several decades people have destroyed thousands of mangrove forests purposely or indirectly, through the impacts of pollution, so ecologists are now trying to recreate these essential but endangered ecosystems. The latest restoration effort is underway on the island of Margarita where a conservation group hopes to re-establish 50 acres (20 hectares). Click Margarita mangroves VIDEO

MY SLIDESHOW: Chiqui Teo

CORAL REEFS


Corals are made of a colony of small creatures: Polyps. These marine animals with tentacles are fixed on a solid axis. This axis is in fact made of the skeletons of dead polyps. The skeletons are made of calcium carbonate (calcareous). The skeleton can be white, pink or blue. The pink coral is very appreciated in jewellery. The polyps live in symbiosis with an alga that lives inside them. The polyps nourish the phosphorus alga. In exchange the alga helps them build their skeleton. The coral reef shelters are very rich in fauna and flora. They can be found in the tropical or sub-tropical waters. They usually grow at rate of 0,5 cm to 1,8 cm per year, mostly along the coasts or by a lagoon, on an atoll. The Coral reefs of the western Pacific are much more diverse than those of the Atlantic and Caribbean. Today, the Coral reefs are under threat, suffering from decline and degradation due to a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors.In several reefs the polyps have been losing their symbiotic alga and ended up dying because their skeleton could not be built any more. Some of the man-made damage is related to pollution and tourism. "Impacts from tourism can often be reduced by raising awareness and changing behaviour among both tourists and local tourism industry workers."The largest coral reef is on the Northern coast of Australia. Click Great Barrier Reef VIDEO

SARAJEVO MON AMOUR

MARO'S FILM REVIEW: Ulysses Gaze (1995)


U filmu Ulysses Gaze (1995) Teodora Angelopulosa, glavni junak (igra ga Harvey Keitel) putuje po Balkanu proslosti i sadasnjosti, u potrazi za prvim balkanskim filmom. Citav film je konstruiran kao potraga za sjecanjem. Dok junak traga za fiksiranim antropoloskim sjecanjem koje je zabiljezio prvi balkanski filmski stvaralac Milton Manaki, posvuda susrece jednu zenu, istog lica, ali svaki put govori drugim balkanskim jezikom... Balkanka gine u Sarajevu. Click ULYSSES GAZE

LA LINEA: My Childhood Hero



LA LINEA was created in 1969 by Italian agency ODG for a series of advertising films for the Lagostino kitchenware. The advertising slogan said “We announce a happy event to you. Agostino Lagostina is born (...)." Who is Agostino? A small sharp man made of a line and a pencil - with a really expressive nose - who is very concerned about modern life.

The author of LA LINEA/click/ Osvaldo Cavandoli(1920-2007) begins his professional career in 1936 as a technical draftsman for the Alfa Romeo before looking further into his passion and his talents of draftsman for animation.In 1943 he starts to work with Nino Pagot, the creator of Calimero. "From 1972 on, LA LINEA was shown on numerous TV stations in Europe as well as in cinema, mostly as interstitial between commercials. Further on LA LINEA was shown in more than 40 countries over the world. The series won prizes 1972 in Annecy, France and 1973 in Zagreb, Croatia." The dubbing of Signor LINEA was made by Carlo Bonomi. An Italian could understand some words of the dialect spoken in Milan, the city where Carlo Bonomi was born. Click LA LINEA.

MARO'S FILM REVIEW: "The Bathing Beauty" (1944)


Film "The Bathing Beauty" (1944) bio je kulturni simbol jugoslavenskog otvaranja prema Zapadu nakon raskida sa Staljinom, prva sarena americka slika svijeta u izgladnjeloj i izmrcvarenoj zemlji, prvi masovni san o kulturi bezbriznosti i lagodnosti...
Malo revijske glazbe, mlak ljubavni zaplet, plivanje i ples, zgodni kostimi i dekor uz bazene, komicni dodatak, i to bi bilo sve.
Kada su jednom nasmijane sirene proplivale a orkestri uz bazen zasvirali, vise se nije moglo natrag, i jugoslavenska formula partijske represije i istovremenog omogucavanja relativnog konzumeristickog opustanja postala je moguca. Jaka i elegantna, misicava i koketna Esther Williams bila je idealan primjer sklapanja socijalistickih i kapitalistickih mjerila za zenu u onaj model koji je od zena zahtijevao bivsi jugoslavenski slucaj.
Danas, uspomena na vrijeme kad je plivanje bilo neraskidivo povezano sa izrazitom zenstvenoscu.Click ESTHER

ADRIATIC SEA: Jabuka Islet



The JABUKA Islet (Apple Islet) lies about 70 km NW of the island of Vis, off the coast of Dalmatia in Croatia - the land of 1185 islands. JABUKA is of volcanic structure with a curious conical shape. Because of its shape and steep coast, JABUKA is almost inaccessible and navigation is very difficult there. Due to magnetite that can be found in the dark volcanic rocks on the islet, compasses become completely useless in the vicinity of JABUKA. "The JABUKA Islet is both a remarkable and frightening sight during nice weather in summer but in winter, when the winds blow causing large waves, it turns into a life-threatening adventure."

MARO'S FILM REVIEW:"The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956)


U Hitchcockovom filmu "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956) Doris Day igra izbezumljenu majku otetog djecaka ciji se otac sasvim slucajno upleo u kompliciranu medjunarodnu spijunsku igru. Da bi dala sinu znak da se nalazi u kuci gdje je on skriven, zapjevala je "Que sera, sera", glupavu pjesmicu za koju je potom dobila i Oscara! Click Doris Day

MAFALDA (1964 -1973) - The Nonconformist



In 1969, the Italian semiologist Umberto Eco presented Mafalda to Europe with these words: "Since our children are soon to become through our choice a multitude of Mafaldas, it would be rash not to treat Mafalda with the respect a real person deserves." (I don't think my parents ever read his words :-)).

MAFALDA is the famous creation of the great Argentine cartoonist Quino (Joaquin Salvador Lavado). /Click/ Quino is one of the few cartoonist who combines a rich sense of humor with sharp social commentary "in face of stupid authorities, decrepit institutions, confining dogmas, and the narrow-mindedness of fellow humans". The strip features a little girl with a deep concern about humanity and world peace who rebels against the world as it is. The strip ran from 1964 to 1973, enjoying high popularity in both Latin America and Europe. After 1973, Quino still drew Mafalda a few times, mostly to promote human rights. In 1976 he produced a poster for the UNICEF illustrating the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Click MAFALDA (Thanks Terry for reminding me of Mafalda).

TONY CROATTO - Una canción nómada


Tony Croatto was born in Udine, Italy and moved to Uruguay with family that immigrated there shortly after World War II. From Uruguay to Argentina. And again, after moving from Argentina to Venezuela,in his late twenties Tony Croatto moved to Puerto Rico and made it his adopted homeland ever since. He found a richness in musical traditions in Puerto Rico that, he claimed, was extremely rare elsewhere in Latin America. In the 70s he formed a group "Haciendo Punto En Otro Son" that besides playing native rhythms from Puerto Rico, would also play songs from the rest of South America to introduce Puertorrican audiences songs of strong social thematics. Thanks to them, the almost forgotten Puertorrican country music (in this case, "mountain music","musica jibara")became popularized amongsts youths bringing an alternative to those who did not like salsa.
Tony Croatto died in 2005, a few hours after a concert held in his honor had ended.
A state funeral was given in Puerto Rico attended by famous artists, actors, politicians and the public. CLICK CROATTO (I had an opportunity to meet Senor Tony Croatto)

CANCION NOMADA
by Roy Brown
" A Tony Croatto, ese primer día,
mirando el Atlántico desde la muralla
de la fortaleza de San Felipe del Morro,
San Juan Viejo, el día que llegaste.

Borracha de palabra
la canción se hace persona
la sonrisa cual la espuma
flota y danza sobre el mar (...)"

YMA SUMAC - Le rossignol des Andes


Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo, click YMA SUMAC, with an amazing four or five-octave voice, was presented to the public as an Inca princess when she recorded Voice Of the Xtabay (1950). She was actually born in 1922 in Ichocán, Cajamarca, Perú. An urban legend says that Yma Sumac had been a housewife named Amy Camus (Yma Sumac backwards) from Brooklyn. Regardless of the stories about her background, there has been no one like her before or since in the annals of popular music or so called "pop-mannerism". In 2006 she visited her native Perú and received Perú's highest honor, El Orden Del Sol Award.

Click for a documentary ABOUT YMA SUMAC

Maro's Film Review : MEDEA (1969)


U doba kad jos nije bilo leca za oci, mucila se uceci sve uloge u svakoj operi, jer zbog svoje jake kratkovidnosti nije mogla vidjeti dirigenta. U privatnom zivotu, izbjegavala je da je slikaju s naocarima. Pasolini je obozavao njezinu kraljevsku staturu i drzanje glave s neizmjerno dubokim ocima. U njegovu filmu Medea (1969) ona ne pjeva, samo glumi, u snivanom reziserovom antickom Mediteranu, punom boja, divlje muzike i Sunca, nimalo nalik na stereotipske "klasicne" muzejske predstave.
Umrla je od srcanog udara u 54. godini zivota, u drustvu dvoje slugu. Prema njezinoj zelji, spaljena je, a pepeo je rasut po Egejskom moru, u olujnom danu.Click Medea - Maria Callas

SABA - The Highest Point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands



On November 13, 1493 Christopher Columbus was the first European who sighted SABA in the Carribean. After that the island was in hands of the French, English, Spanish, and Dutch. Finally in 1816 Holland took possession of SABA. Before the "discovery" of Columbus in 1493, Arawak Indians used to live on the island, some objects were found to prove this settlement. Artifacts of this period and other objects can be found in the State Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, The Netherlands. SABA ("The Unspoiled Queen") consists largely of the dormant volcano. The Mount Scenery (888 m) at SABA is considered to be the highest point of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. There are not any beach areas on the entire island since the entire shoreline is made up of cliffs that drop straight down into the ocean.The locals claim that SABA's runway is the /click/shortest commercial runway.In 2002 a committee had been established to formally request UNESCO to declare SABA a World Heritage Site.

BORINQUEN : LA ISLA DEL ENCANTO

A NIGHT IN DUBROVNIK

Maro's Film Review : BLONDE VENUS (1932)


Na kabaretskoj sceni, usred freneticne "egzoticne igre", pojavljuje se figura u kostimu gorile, dodajuci plesu element divljine i grubosti. "Gorila" sjeda i skida glavu, ispod koje se rastresaju Marleneini svijetli uvojci. S tijelom jos uvijek u ogromnom crnom zivotinjskom kostimu, ona pjeva "Hot Voodoo". Ne postoji filmsko svlacenje ovakva efekta! Click Blonde Venus (Marlene Dietrich)

LA LUPE - Pure Theatre


Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond,click LA LUPE, revolutionized the Caribbean musical atmosphere. She brought an innovative spirit to her music, which captured the imagination regardless of the genre: guaracha, bomba, son, or bolero. She had achieved a certain unexpected fame in her native Cuba, where she was considered a revolutionary for her vocal style. Upon her arrival to the United States, she embarked on a new and equally consecrating stage of her career, one that would take on a new dimension alongside Maestro Tito Puente, with whom she would record four albums.She was considered to be one of Latin Music's Top Female Stars of all time and given the title, "Queen of Latin Soul. Her song "Puro Teatro" became an international hit after Spanish movie director, Pedro Almodovar used the song in his film "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" which received international acclaim. In 2002, New York City renamed East 140th Street in The Bronx as La Lupe Way in her memory. On June 5th 2007 the PBS series Independent Lens will broadcast "La Lupe Queen of Latin Soul," a documentary/click Preview1 Preview2 /on the legendary singer. Click LA LUPE Click BIO

POCITELJ - Bosnia & Herzegovina



"This unique settlement, listed as a UNESCO heritage site was heavily damaged during and sadly even after the war but recent reconstruction has returned the town to its original form. The 1992-1995 war meant the destruction and looting of Pocitelj's mix of Mediterranean and Turkish architecture and the magnificent examples of the world's architectural treasury have been trashed. Today Pocitelj hosts again the longest operating art colony in southeast Europe.Artists from around the world gather here to paint, among other things but importantly, the shiny red pomegranates and figs." Click POCITELJ

A LIFE IN MARBLE : Work of Thierry Moingeon

Click GALLERY

ISLAND OF STAFFA, SCOTLAND - A Unique Geological Wonder



The Island of Staffa (Island of Pillars) is a tiny uninhabited island in the Inner Hebrides, W.Scotland. It is famous for its basaltic formations that are the result of volcanic eruptions - a lava flow that has solidified into characteristic hexagonal columns - 60 millions years ago. The most impressive feature is /click/Fingal's Cave. It is inundated by the sea. It is breathtaking, according to those who visited it. Walter Scott describes it as: "…one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld. It exceeded, in my mind, every description I had heard of it …composed entirely of basaltic pillars as high as the roof of a cathedral, and running deep into the rock, eternally swept by a deep and swelling sea, and paved, as it were, with ruddy marble, baffles all description." Those who like Mendelssohn might know that the/click/"Hebrides Overture/Fingal's Cave" was inspired by his visit to this place. In 1832 Joseph Turner made a painting called Staffa, Fingal's Cave.
The island is not easy to get to. It is only possible to land in small boats from the island of Mull or Iona. Click IONA

ROME IS RULED BY CATS



"Rome is ruled by cats, and in some instances they have more rights than people. Good for them. They deserve it. If you are lucky enough to have a kitten born on your doorstep, by law it has the right to live on your property. You don't necessarily have to care for it, but if it wants to watch Big Brother, or some other quite inane television program, let it. Life will be easier.Where did all these cats come from? Egypt. When the ancient Egyptian empire fell, the felines boarded sailing vessels and scattered themselves around the world. Lucky for Rome, some of them ended up here to help maintain the rat problem, which was good during the 1300's when the bubonic plague arrived in Italy.Today in the Coliseum area alone there are about 200 cats, but the real Roman cat sanctuary is Torre Argentina. It is one of the older temples in Rome (400-300 B.C.) and the historic site where Julius Ceasar was stabbed by his rival Brutus in 44 B.C. Since then, 250-300 stray cats have found shelter here from chaos and traffic. They are fed, spayed, pet and given medicine by an international group of volunteers."

MARIO KOPIC: "The Unhealable Wound of the World"



MARIO KOPIC was born in 1965 in Dubrovnik. He studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature in Zagreb; Philosophy (Phenomenology) and Political Anthropology in Ljubljana; Political History and History of Ideas in Berlin (Prof. Ernst Nolte); and Comparative Religiology in Rome (Prof.Ida Magli).He published many texts among which the books:"Iskusavanje rubova smisla"(1991);" S Nietzscheom o Europi" (2001); "Nietzche e Evola" (2001); "Izazovi post-metafizike" (2007); "Proces Zapadu" (2003); His work includes translations from Italian, German, French and Slovenian language. Within a week his new book " The Unhealable Wound of the World" ("Nezacjeljiva rana svijeta") will see the light of day. This book explores the Phenomenology of Domination.

The NETHERLANDS: A Floating Country



"God created the earth," says an old Dutch saying "but the Dutch created the Netherlands." Indeed, precious few nations share the distinction of having forged much of their land from the sea...Today the Dutch are gearing up for climate change with amphibious floating houses. If rivers rise above their banks, the houses simply rise upwards as well. But are water lovers prepared to live on swimming family arks?" Click FLOATING HOME

HONEY, DON'T BE A BEE


Anticki grcki pjesnik Simonid napisao je seriju opisa tipskih zena, i svaka potice od neke zivotinje. Jedna od kobile, druga od majmunice, treca od kuje - svaka gora od one prethodne, odredjena svojim tijelom. Jedina koja je "dobra", koja se preporucuje za brak, jest zena nastala od pcele: skoro nevidljiva, dakle bestjelesna, ona radi li radi, i primjetna je samo po tihom zujanju - i medu, naravno. Maro.
Click MAJA

OLIVE GALLERY





Pupak/Omphalos Click GALLERY

A FIGURE REDUCED TO EYES (Maro)



Vrijedi analizirati ovaj lik, uokviren crnim, bojom tuge. Pokriveno je sve, osim lica - znamenitog bijelog tena. Zenska figura svedena je na pogled, univerzalni ljudski pogled nedavne patnje. Smrt je upisana u aluzivna znacenja. Zenska privlacnost svedena je na oci i glas, dubok i provokativan, glumacki i pjevacki. Drhtaj ozbiljnog i odgovornog u zabavi i uzivanju.Click GRECO Click Bio

Maro's Film Review: "NEVER ON SUNDAY" (1960)


Sigurno si gledala /click>/Never on Sunday. Eto danas, u nedjelju, sjetio sam se tog filma i posljednje grcke bozice, Meline Mercouri. U filmu je fiksiran taj nezaboravni zenski lik – mediteranska prostitutka dobra srca. Zaneseni americki ljubitelj anticke Grcke dolazi u stvarnu Grcku, i svojim deplasiranim naporima da kulturno uzdigne zavodljivu lucku prostitutku, pravi probleme njoj, njezinom stalnom ljubavniku, pristalom mornaru, i svakome drugome u blizini. Duhovita poduka o kulturnom kolonijalizmu i o nasilnoj „vezi“ izmedju anticke proslosti i lokalne svakodnevice imala je sjajnog tumaca u Melini – toj sasvim ne-tipskoj Grkinji, visokoj, vitkoj, dugih nogu, plave kose. Njen glas zvuci promuklo od cigareta, njezino pjevanje je bez napora, skoro saputanje, njezin bosonogi ples zanosan. Na pitanje kako je razumjela kraj tragedije (vrlo tragican, jer je rijec o Medeji), ona u filmu odgovara legendarnom recenicom: „I onda su svi otisli na more!“.

THE ATLANTIC, Sargasso Sea



The SARGASSO SEA is located between the Caribbean and the Azores, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It is known as “the floating desert” and a meeting place for eels. It is exceptionally salty, clear and blue. It is also known as the "Sea of Lost Ships", being a part of the “BermudaTriangle “ myth. A widespread growth of seaweed is found here…

INDIAN OCEAN, La Réunion, Bourbon Vanilla




BOURBON VANILLA FROM REUNION – Vanilla is the only edible orchid. Its flavour has been known and used for a long time. As early as in the 14th century, the Aztecs from Mexico used it to flavour their favorite drink of cacao. Vanilla first left Mexico in the early 1500s on ships bound for Spain.
In 19th century some lianas of Vanilla Planifolia were introduced to the plantations of Réunion( formerly Bourbon). In 1841, young slave Edmond Albius invented the technique of artificial pollination of vanilla. The cultivation of vanilla spreads all over the island. Today the Bourbon Vanilla is considered to be the best on the world market.

The word vanilla derived from the Spanish name of the spice, vainilla, which is a diminutive of vaina “sheath". Perhaps motivated by the sheath-like shape of the fruit. Word vaina is of Latin origin vagina.
Réunion, (French: Île de la Réunion or La Réunion, formerly Île Bourbon), is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar. Réunion is also one of the twenty-six regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic with the same status as those situated on the European mainland.