#cycle 2

"Okay.." Cucumber gives Blossom her hand, his emerald eyes full of worry. Surely, there's something on his hands that caused.. that. It couldn't be caused by his own touch, right? He was able to hold flowers before, hasn't he?

Yet when he looks at his hand held by his friend, there's.. nothing. No poison or anything that could've caused the flower's demise, all it was is his hand.

But.. Why?? Was the Nightmare Knight like this? What about.. before? When he lost his eye? Is that why it came back? Nevertheless, he feels nervous about this. Plants die under his touch.

Jaelle Leclerc

CYCLE 2 ・ 8/10 ・ ITALY

Ludwig (1973, Luchino Visconti)

Ludwig starts out as a sane movie about an eccentric and somewhat childlike king, and over the course of four hours, slides slowly into increasingly colorful and sprawling excess. This mirrors the journey of its subject: the "Mad King" Ludwig II of Bavaria. At first, his exploits consist mainly of spending huge sums on his patronage of Richard Wagner, who staged Tristan and Isolde for the first time on Ludwig's dime. As the film progresses, however, Ludwig starts building castles with underground ponds and swan boats, while also opting for illicit homosexual affairs with male aids rather than marrying and continuing the royal lineage.