“The Romance of Astrea and Celadon” - Boy pretending to be girl meets girl, sort of - (No Comments)
By Richard Murphy, posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009You’ve probably heard the old cliché like question, “Did the people who lived in the Dark Ages know they lived in the Dark Ages? It is not a bad interrogative. Heck, what will they call the age we live in? Don’t know myself, I’m still trying to answer the musical question, “Who wrote the book of love?”
But I digress. The point is, in the movie, The Romance of Astrea and Celadon, all seems positive and hardly the dark ages. Fifth Century Gaul appears a pastoral paradise. Not like the historical accounts of a society breaking apart due to barbarian invasions. So what’s going on?
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