October in south-west France and Spain is,
theoretically, a spell no man can resist…
The makers of this sub-five minute video, with its notes
of late-career Kai Neville and the Argentinian
Gaspar Noé, pucker their lens at three Australian who
visit south-west France in October, 2018.
Jay Davies, Chippa Wilson and Dion Agius have long been
Francophiles, packing their Superman pyjamas each year and chasing
the honey pot of beachbreak ramps.
The film is called La Cabane, or the…cough… Cabin, who
knew French could be so easy, and is made by the magazine
Wasted Talent, which is based in gorgeous
Hossegor.
It hits, I think, the right vibe for autumn in France: a little
subdued, the colours pulled back, waves certainly not perfect, but
with enough exposed velour to raise the heartbeat.
Spain, of course, is all brown and a little Third World and
dirty.
No need to clutch the remote, you can watch this start to
end.
Oh, and since we’re in France, I’ve always loved this quote from
Guy de Maupassant about the guillotine.
“It is done. He was guillotined this morning. He made a good
end, very good. It gave me infinite pleasure. How sweet it is to
see a man’s head cut off! The blood spurted out like a wave, like a
wave. Oh, if I could, I would have liked to have bathed in it! What
intoxicating ecstasy to crouch below it, to receive it in my hair
and on my face, and rise up all crimson, all crimson! Ah, if people
knew!”
