Question:“On films for a rainy day”
On films for a rainy day
Rain turns the window into a screen. The blurrier it is outside, the sharper the story inside.
Three descend. Do not shut out the rain. That sound is the soundtrack to all three.
- Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, 1952)Watch a man dance in the rain and rain becomes something else.
- Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)The lanes of Paris suit a wet day best.
- The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)A film remembered for one shot of two arms opened to the rain.
Zeus was the god who sent rain, and Deucalion rode out that rain in a boat.