Tag: Classic

Sevdalinka

I watched some Serbian love songs at Mosman Art Gallery last week and it warmed my heart.

There were about 50 people in audience and two main musicians and a choir were working together to create such moving music.

There was so much long lost love, unrequited love and imaginative longing in the lyrics there was much to sustain us on the road of romance.

The music speaks for itself. There was a sense of awe about each performer and to top it off they ended the performance with words celebrating the beauty of valuing humanity in the world and of what each person can bring in their humanness and dignity to the table of life.

Emily (2023)

In 2023 I watched the movie Emily, about Romantic period author Emily Brontë (1840s) who wrote the novel Wuthering Heights. The movie was awesome. I liked how Emily and brother Branwell yelled out on the Moors “Freedom of Thought”! This reminded me of John Henry Newman’s book (1852) The Idea of a University.

I also liked how she spoke French at home and spoke her mind with her sister when using it ( it sounded so delicate in the French tongue) and I liked how there was a twist in the tale at the end. The movie brought tears to my eyes, even in the nonchalant parts, I suppose as a precursor, i could sense the movie’s building of heaviness and the sense of gloom near the end. I like Emily’s sense of adventure and the theme of “ the greatest joy in life is love and be loved”.

What I loved about the movie was the fact that the father (the mother had died) and sisters and brother encouraged eachother to best their best person and to write! What a roller coaster ride of emotions in this movie! Worth seeing.