Last days of summer

 El atardecer del verano empezaba a envolver al mundo en su misterioso abrazo. El sol descendía a lo lejos, hacia el oeste, lanzando los últimos destellos de un día fugaz, destellos que se detenían amorosamente en el mar y la playa, sobre las rocas cubiertas de vegetación que contornean la costa. 

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 The summer evening had begun to fold the world in its mysterious embrace. Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the weedgrown rocks along shore.

—James Joyce, Ulysses.

Summer is fading away and while I read James Joyce's Ulysses and listen to Dustin O'Halloran and Frank Sinatra's Summer Wind, I feel transported to those beaches that Joyce talks about. I feel like listening to the sound of the waves, enjoying the last days of summer under the sun and strolling the white sand at sunset. 

Ph.: La piscine (1969), Georgia May Jagger by venetia scott, David Hamilton, Stealing Beauty (1996), François Halard, Jane Birkin, Kate Moss, Leroy Grannis, Grace Kelly by Howell Conant, Persona (1966), Summer Interlude (1951), Quentin De Briey

Mai 68

Cours vite, camarade! Le vieux monde est derrière toi! 

Actor Jean-Pierre Léaud with director François Truffaut and other people from the cinema industry and cinephiles, protesting at the gates of the Cinémathèque Française, after its director Langlois got fired (below). The "Langlois Affair" and those protests were recreated by Bertolucci on The Dreamers (2003), as explained in the video (above).

 Director Jean-Luc Godard filming the demonstration on the streets of Paris.

Bruno Barbey, with his camera around his neck. One of the most famous photographers of the riots.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, known as "Dany le Rouge", leader of the riots,

 with other student activists.

Truffaut, Léaud and others at the gates of the Cinémathèque Française, 

closed by the government after the firing of Langlois.

Directors Lelouch, Godard, Truffaut, Malle and Polanski at the Cannes Festival 

during May 68. They demanded to boycott the festival to support the protests.

The occupied Sorbonne during philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre's lecture.

The barricades.

 Student at Victor Hugo's statue in the Sorbonne in May 68.

The Sorbonne used as a dormitory.

Reopening of the Nanterre university.

Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible! 

Ph.: Bruno Barbey, and stills from The Dreamers (2003)