My God, I can't believe that Oscar Niemeyer is still alive and still involved in diverse projects! He was born in 1907! One can say that the glory of the work of art outlasts the glory of the artist. But in the case of Brasilia, as the capital work of art of Kubitschek, Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, situation is somewhat different. The vision of human in artist's mind at that particular point in history, which are the wonderful structuralist 1960s, will outlast the work of art. A sequence of scenes in 1964 movie "That Man From Rio" with Jean-Paul Belmondo was shot in Brasilia, and the perfect photography in that movie captured the movement of the human body through the architecture like never before and never after! Editing played its role, but there is something in the movie that brings that strange feeling of nostalgia for large-scale human projects. The socialist city is still there to remind me of the roads less travelled. "That Man From Rio" is one of my childhood favorites, but more as a proof in favor of Baudrillard's claim that only the child knows that there is no childhood. What I know now I knew back then! I want to run on the great structuralist plains in the City of the Sun.
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