The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)
Devastated by his girlfriend s death, a man jumps from three bridges, one after the other, in Venice. He s not attempting suicide, just fulfilling a promise. Then he roams around London, inseparable from the video camera he uses to film the places where they d been together. He compiles the clips he s filmed over the previous year into a personal film, a kind of visual diary documenting a relationship full of unusual eroticism. A thirtyyearold Englishwoman of Italian extraction, Bea Cossan, and Luis Malten, five years her senior, meet in London and fall in love at first sight. She s an art historian specializing in the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, he s a maritime engineer writing a PhD on gondola construction. They share a passion for interpreting the hidden language of symbols. When they film details from The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bea, almost like Dante s Beatrice, guides Luis through the tangled web of meanings.
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