WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG

The following clip is from a really good British film Flashbacks of a Fool (2008). 

IF THERE'S SOMETHING

The scene is stunning and really captures well the sense of memory and nostalgia (the film is about a fading Hollywood star looking back at the days of his youth as he returns home for his best friend's funeral).

The trigger for me looking for this and finding it on Youtube was something Richard said tonight in his latest post which was a kind of eulogy for a very old friend of his who has just died.

I was also reminded of some lines from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

     

April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

As a balance here's a clip of the final scene from the film.

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG

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