Searching for the soul of the city
CityPoem 3 - Newcastle (from the film Amélie)
By Hans Karssenberg
23-07-2006 /views: 1275 in past 12 months.
From Paris to Amélie to Newcastle. City copies film copies poetry?
Photo: Greenapples / Marieke L. van der Velden
This CityPoem on a wall in Newcastle is a copy of the CityPoem that Amélie encounters in the well known and well loved film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulainon (2001), also known as just 'Amélie, on a wall in Paris. After this, it turns into a recurring theme of the film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Newcastle CityPoem: poem from Amélie
This CityPoem on a wall in Newcastle is a copy of the CityPoem that Amélie encounters in the well known and well loved film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulainon (2001), also known as just 'Amélie, on a wall in Paris. After this, it turns into a recurring theme of the film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Newcastle CityPoem: poem from Amélie
(The photographer Marieke van der Velden has placed this photo as ‘all rights reserved’ on flickr.com, but she was very helpful and kind to allow us to publish her photo at erasmuspc for our CityPoems project. Thank you Marieke! Please take a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenapples/88912221/.)
Without you,
today's emotions
would be
the scurf
of yesterday's
About the author
Probably written by the scenario writers of the film: Guillaume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Original French text
Sans toi les
émotions d'aujourd'hui
ne seraient que
la peau morte
des emotions
d'autrefois
Inspiring Cities Museum of CityPoems
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