Franny

2012.

It’s a recreation of a scene from J. D. Salinger’s 1961 novel Franny and Zooey. “Franny was staring at the little blotch of sunshine with a special intensity, as if she were considering lying down in it.”

There are some moments, when you feel a “kind of comfort inside, almost a revelation, that opens your soul, but at the same time you feel a kind of pain, the sensation of an absolute, irremediable loss. A sweet catastrophe.” And in these moments you are always somehow only in front of it what happens, watching it from the outside. “When you happen to see the place where you would be safe you are always looking at it from the outside. You are never in it. It’s your place, but you are never there.” And if you are, the miracle you felt while looking in it from the outside, is gone. And even though you look sad, it has to do with something like happiness, the devastating experience of having suddenly glimpsed it there. This miracle is happiness itself. And it only happens once, it can’t be made permanent, repeated or even reminisced. You just stand there shocked looking how beautiful it is, how sadly and painfully perfect and inexplicable it is. This is why it is perfect and beautiful, because it doesn’t last - it’s fragile, and evanescent. It glints and fades out right away. “There’s nothing to be explained and understood in front of an inexplicably fragile and beautiful thing.“

Franny: Odett Polgár

Lane: Balázs Györy

Make up: Judit Kökény (HAVE)

Hair: Norbert Kozma (HAVE)

Styling: Endre Fazekas

Gaffer: Jozsef Szomjas

SFX: Szabolcs Princz

Post production: Frank Rizzo

Thanks to: Zoltán Pintér, Dániel Tihanyi, Robert Laszlo Bacsi

Quotes: Alessandro Baricco, Bela Hamvas