Rather Have The Blues: The Novels of Paul Auster, The Films of Jacques Demy

Attracted to movement, or dynamics, you can cover some strange territory. There is a character in Paul Auster’s novel, City of Glass, who derives rich rewards from walking New York City’s streets. That was the beginning of Auster here. The characters of Jacques Demy’s films come across as dismayingly inert. That was the beginning of Demy here. How, then, did everything head toward the 1955 film noir, Kiss Me Deadly?