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Monday, July 26, 2010
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CAMERON: [Why do you show] the doves which land on the gauze roof of the pavilion [in
The Trail of Joan of Arc
]?
BRESSON: There is no symbolism in this. I don't like symbolism. It is only to show that life is going on.
Robert Bresson
from an interview with Ian Cameron (1962)
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