It’s interesting that people have differing interpretations of the footage and Sean’s first post. Note that Sean does not use words like romantic. He says this:
Sean van Berlo wrote:... it is meant to evoke the feelings of the poem, which (for you non-Dutch speaking people) is about making choices, failing, struggling with past memories and letting go of things. The audio ... will be replaced with a male and female voice over.
With regards to what I was aiming at: the coloring is supposed to feel nostalgic, warm, and definitely not 100% realistic, while still remaining very naturalistic; people should not 'see the grade', so to speak.
I read that, and the editing of the footage, as implying a fair amount of tension, which is one reason, while trying to pick up on his adjectives, I made the film suggestions I did.
It would be interesting to know whether the Dutch poem is something that Marguerite Duras would recognise, author of
Hiroshima mon amour.
Of course, I may have completely missed the boat :) As others have suggested, inability to understand the poem doesn’t make a response easy. Interesting to read the different reactions, though.
Cheers