A Writer's Notebook

A Writer's Notebook

12. Guillermo del Toro Talks Film and Painting

On the cinematic quality of an Orientalist canvas.

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Summer Brennan
Feb 22, 2022
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Le Sahara, by Gustave Guillaumet. 1867. Oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay.

Dear friends,

As I get settled in New Mexico today and take care of family business, I thought you might enjoy this short six-minute talk by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro at the Musée d’Orsay. It’s on the Orientalist painting Le Sahara by Gustave Guillaumet, and how it relates to …

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