Cinema Muto

Ein Werktag

23 Ein Werktag “[This 1931 Swiss film] depicts human destinies caught up in the realities of life. A truck driver . . . and a shop girl . . . face long working hours, exhausting labor, low salaries, and the constant threat of unemployment.” —Le Giornate del Cinema Muto catalogue do you remember? how despite the shuttered window the closed and mended curtains the smell of mountains was in every corner was all the breath there was? we were without experience were novices at love the mountains! to smell them in the middle of city trucks grinding by outside was to be blessed though we ached from foot to head with this love which was clearly not agape a man walks this earth in his tight skin in rain and drought with nothing much to fear from either 24 but love the world’s incisor gnawed us to the bone still there were mountains beyond the curtain do you remember? the smell of snow in every room ...