Lydia, oh Lydia

My last day of "freedom", and, disappointingly, the weather has stubbornly remained grey and grizzly - despite forecasts to the contrary.

Hey ho, let's escape somewhere gorgeous in the company of impossibly glamorous (but typically for so many '60s continental films, downright miserable) people; courtesy of the ever-wonderful Soft Tempo Lounge...

Soft Tempo Lounge - Lydia Canta

Ah, that's better.

[Music Ancora Un Po by Lydia MacDonald
Film: La Notte (1961)]

Tranquillité

How our house-warming party will no doubt look

As the whirlwind of thoughts and plans for our forthcoming potential move begin to become a reality, so we are in need of a little calm for our jangling nerves.

What better way than with a little light musical interlude - and another chance to wallow in the lives of impossibly glamorous people in exotic locations? I think a Soft Tempo Lounge tribute to the late, great and uber-cool Jeanne Moreau fits the bill perfectly...

Soft Tempo Lounge - I Dream of Jeanne

[Music: Angelo Brigada - Luna Sorgente]

Some do the deed with many tears, and some without a sigh

It is (I believe) the ultimate aspiration of the residents of Dolores Delargo Towers II to achieve true decadence - a state of mind in which, ultimately, nothing matters except gratification. First, of course, we have to win the Lottery or achieve some other means to afford that luxury!

However, if we can't achieve it just yet, let us instead indulge in the never-to-be-repeated experience of Rainer Werner Fassbinder vs Jean Genet vs Jeanne Moreau vs Brad Davis, in a wonderful clip from that incredibly decadent movie Querelle.

This film caused a sensation on its release way back in this week in 1982, for its overtly gay content as much as anything else.

In an era when my own closet doors were only just creaking open, oh! how I wanted to be in touch with this homoerotic high-camp Technicolour world...



For the more literary amongst you - yes, that strange ditty Mme Moreau sings is indeed an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol...

All about Querelle on IMDB