SILK a moving film

March 10th, 2008

The won­der­ful idea, from my son Alfonso, of pro­ject­ing films at home –instead of watch­ing them on a TV screen– con­tin­ues to my the life long dream of a home the­ater be a great gift.
Among the many beau­ti­ful films recently seen is SILK — a film with a very direct story line, a love story, but one of the most del­i­cate expres­sions of true love.
The views of France and Japan are equally strik­ing, the pho­tog­ra­phy is excel­lent, but it is the del­i­cacy and exquis­ite­ness of the love story what makes it memorable.

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4 Responses

  1. From Corinne:

    Alma! I just wanted to let you know that I fin­ished your book — and I LOVED IT. My review is at http://corinnesbookreviews.blogspot.com/2008/04/where-flame-trees-bloom-by-alma-flor.html
    if you want to read it. Thanks so much!

    04.21.08, 10:13 am

  2. From Corinne:

    Sorry, that link was no good. Here is the review

    I hope that works :)

    04.21.08, 10:14 am

  3. From Toasty:

    I’m really excited you have a blog, although it looks like you haven’t blogged in a while. I am a bilingual/ELL teacher, cur­rently work­ing as a stay at home mom while my daugh­ters are babies. I am teach­ing them Span­ish, and I have always loved your lit­er­a­ture. My 2year old is quite ver­bal and start­ing to enjoy your books as well. I fre­quently cre­ate my own mate­ri­als for teach­ing Span­ish, and my dream is to pub­lish some­thing as mean­ing­ful as what you have pub­lished over the years. It will take every fiber in my being to cre­ate some­thing as mean­ing­ful as you pos­sess in your pinky fin­ger! My “Toasty” blog is just a silly way to let off steam. My real work is with my daugh­ters, and while impor­tant, it some­times makes me feel like I’m not con­tribut­ing to soci­ety, as I did when I was teach­ing. I hope you con­tinue to blog. You are a true inspi­ra­tion to me. Robin (e-mail: robinsme@maine.rr.com)

    06.16.08, 8:52 am

  4. From Rene Saldana, Jr.:

    Alma: we’ve never met at one con­fer­ence or another, but I’m a big admirer: espe­cially of your pic­ture books I LOVE SATs y domin­gos and GATHERING THE SUN. Also of your chap­ter book MY NAME IS MA. ISABEL. So much so that I assign them to my ed sut­dents at Texas Tech in Lub­bock every/any chance I get. Includ­ing this sum­mer. And you saw proof of how much my stu­dents enjoy your work as well on their blogs (I’ve only looked at one student’s so far, and you left such an awe­some mes­sage). Thanks for that.
    Abra­zos,
    René Sal­daña, Jr.

    08.11.08, 4:24 pm