Confessions of an Amant de Film

"Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness."
- Pedro Almodovar

The greatest invention of all times will always be "cinema," in my humble opinion. I am always grateful to the Lumière brothers. Merci beaucoup! But I am more grateful to my beautiful mother. Because, without her, I wouldn't be at Alverno College, majoring in English and minoring in Creative Writing, and Film Studies. Maybe I wouldn't even be the same Ana writing my long introduction for this class. The fact of thinking about, "what would have happened if my mother wouldn't love movies?" is an unpleasant and stressful situation that I always want to avoid. Thinking about this "other" Ana, caring less of this form of art, kills me inside. I strongly agree with the Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar. Films do have that effect on me. After all, they are part of me. When my sisters and I were still children, we used to watch one film every two days with our mother. Every movie was a memory, a happy one or a painful one. A film can define you as a human being. Today I watch a film, but tomorrow I will be in one.