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...spiritual journey moves quickly, ending with inspiring strength. What should add to the runtime is Anderson’s short film “Hotel Chevalier,” which ostensibly provides a prologue to “The Darjeeling Limited.” “Hotel Chevalier?? won’t be shown in theaters, but at the request of Anderson and the studio, it is available for free on iTunes. The short shows Schwartzman and Natalie Portman ’03 in a Parisian hotel room and reveals a few details that complicate the subsequent...
...emblematic moment from Tracy Chevalier??s latest novel “Burning Bright,” two children read together the richly indeterminate opening lines to William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”: “Tyger tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”“What’s ‘symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel...
...novel’s quotation from Goethe’s “Theory of Colors” indicates the genesis of Chevalier??s characteristically cerebral style: “As yellow is always accompanied with light, so it may be said that blue still brings a principle of darkness with...
Ella has learned from her research that the blue color in her dream is that of the precious lapis lazuli pigment used in Renaissance paintings to emphasize the Virgin’s miraculous agency. And as the color recurs throughout Chevalier??s novel, it becomes a motif for Isabella’s and Ella’s own searches for agency...
...novel with a final incarnation of the color blue. Isabelle is at a crossroads, questioning whether to go forward, back, or remain where she is. A“blue light surrounds her, giving her solace for the briefest moment.” Blue ultimately represents the ability of Chevalier??s luminous prose to capture the beauty of the fleeting moments in her heroines’ lives...