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There are some films that are comforting to watch simply to enjoy the visual movement on the screen. Dynamic art, like watching films and reading books, forces us to sit and do the unthinkable -- nothing -- for a certain amount of time. We can listen to music and walk around, we can glance at a painting and move on, but films and books encourage us to still ourselves and simply share in the movement of something outside of ourselves and bring it inward. We are not being utilized, we are not doing anything productive, we are simply existing in a moment of self-indulgent pleasure. This is why I love re-watching Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. For that amount of time, I can simply watch the swirl and hum of pinks and blues across the screen, allow a thumping soundtrack to come into my rib bones, and revel in the energy and frivolousness of being a woman and still quite young. I'm not sure it's the best film ever made, but to me, it is the most perfect -- for taking two hours to sit, to do nothing, and to appreciate how beautiful life is in art and then getting back up and finding that art in my life in a circular exchange that feels like making love with an old lover over and over again.

Elena

New York, New York