Victoria Williams: 0222

Dear J,
I’ve been watching Burnt by the Sun. The piano is a very important character in the film, as it has been in all of our lives. Mitya, the pianist is loquacious but it’s the music he plays that is often the subtext of a scene. There are also many shots of the back of people’s heads. It’s rather like The Odyssey in that Mitya returns to his master’s home 10 years after being exiled and finds someone else married to his love. He too is disguised as an old man. There are also burning orbs that appear throughout the film – they resemble little suns. I still don’t quite understand them – I think they’re alluding to a certain kind of cosmology where underlying human feelings are played out in the atmosphere.
Anyway Pete has a bacterial infection on his lip. We’re not supposed to kiss on the mouth, which doesn’t leave us with many options. Or am I not being imaginative enough?
Write back quicker than last time. People in olden times could spend half their lives waiting for letters you know.