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I too love soft, muted tones, with the surprise of a bright colour here and there... I could relate.

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I had never thought of Bergman's colors. But of course they matter so much. You have also brought Bergman back to mind. One scene especially.

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Beautiful, Celia. Thank you for sharing that.

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Lovely. Will this kind of cultural, geographic and even color palette beauty survive the current globalist assault? I am dubious. Hard to believe we have fallen so far since that clip.

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Ingmar Bergman. What a wonderful flashback. Gratis Celia.

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The first time I saw this scene in Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" I was struck by the sense that no matter how contrived that little puppet theater was, it somehow doesn't detract from the theophany it conveyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiTSZXyxlW0

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Places do have a color palette. The Faero Islands comment reminded me of the first day I came to Mount Desert Island in Maine over 40 years ago, climbed a small mountain, and looked into the distance. Green/Gray/Blue, in endless shades. I thought of it then as the place's palette, and like a key into a lock, it somehow fit into me, and removed whatever attachments I had to places previously. And hasn't left... I had to laugh in the video at the sudden switch to the red Jeep — it reminded me of the red underwear in "The Gods Must Be Crazy" — out of place and yet somehow not.

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