Nous sommes a la epoque catatonique... il n'y a pas de la goût de la vie, de la joie de la vie. Il n'y a pas rien que nous excite. Je voie la jeunesse: elle n'y a pas de la courage, n'a pas de joie de vivre; n'y a pas rien apart la cariere. La jeunesse n'a pas de souffle. C'est la faute de la societe: la societe ils n'a il n'y a donne de pression... Nous vivons a la epoque tres triste. Le cinema d'aujourdui c'est plus en plus le cinema de compromis...
Easy to say he has lost a taste for life: all men are inclined to say that things were better in the past, when they were young (Angelopoulos is now seventy two).
Yet, though I do not remember what life was like in the 50's and 60's, when, he says, 'the streets of Paris seemed to sing' and only know the West of 80's and 90's, which Angelopoulos would probably qualify as "nowadays" (the dull, stifling nowadays); and for this reason cannot compare the nowadays to the (presumably) better, more interesting, more exciting past; yet, I recognize the thought as very familiar: the present of the West does seem to me dull.
Very, very dull.
And the youth do seem bored. Bored and boring (the distinction is purely grammatical, it means the same thing).
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