lives. We may touch divinity--it is a question in each case. The possibility is to live out in the work and to foster what we then to an extent are. The screen life may seem not just our reflection, or just a beyond, but our life's blood, our child.
Cavell discussed this point about overwhelming suggestiveness and almost being stopped by the weight of it in a lecture on Now, Voyager at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in the winter of 1988, and I have heard him discuss the point on other occasions in other connections. Most of the thoughts on Now, Voyager were worked up into Cavell essay "Ugly Duckling, Funny Butterfly: Bette Davis and Now, Voyager," Critical Inquiry 16, no. 2 (Winter 1990).
I would like to thank filmmaker Ross McElwee for calling my attention to the danger of staging and filming the scene with the infant in the water.
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Publication Information: Book Title: Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film. Contributors: Maryel Locke - editor, Charles Warren - editor, Jean Luc Godard - author, Anne-Marie Miéville - author. Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press. Place of Publication: Carbondale, IL. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: 26.
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