It was an eventful year: Mark Twain published “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, the chancellor Otto von Bismarck occupied Cameroon, Louis Pasteur successfully tested the anti-rabies vaccine, Rodin created the marvelous ”Les Bourgeois de Calais”, the Statue of Liberty was brought to New York.
Scena 20, dubla 3. Atentie, motor! Lady Tuptim, concubina preferata a regelui Siam-ului, fuge din harem. Ii este dor de logodnicul ei, Balat si decide, deghizata in barbat, sa se ascunda in templul unde locuia acesta. Insa garzile regelui o gasesc si acum, frumoasa Tuptim isi asteapta sentinta…
Our first “rendez-vous” was several years ago, at Cinemateca(a film library), where I had been told to see “Indochine”. Oh, what a cinematic experience! What a refinement, such lovely fashion details, what a sweet-bitter feeling, what a music, what a majestic acting, what an impressive beauty!…And some house! Can you remember the tango of Eliane (the wonderful Deneuve) and Camille in the saloon with rattan sofas, with blinds and walls having the colour of honey? Yes, a mythical scene, an incredible spot!
The arm of Europe is quite long… And when it meets Oriental hearts, exotic souls, the mix is fa-bu-lous! And Penang is a testimony of this absolutely charming ”marriage”, showing it off at each corner.
It`s a beautiful example, isn`t it? So natural and so true! I`ve heard it again, recently, and I thought it perfectly fits Dato Sean and Datin Karen, the owners of a jewelry hotel shop which I found in Penang...
A piece of island in the Southern - Eastern part of Asia, in Malaysia, at the end of the world. It had became a British colony since the XVIII th century. The aim? The trade, of course, for the British East...
