I have just read this beautiful sentence from the childhood days of cinema in Daniel Kehlmann’s wonderful book “Lichtspiel”. The later director G.W.Pabst was standing in a film studio for the first time, “but the close-ups amazed Pabst: you saw faces from a close up that at first seemed absurd. You would only otherwise see people that you were kissing so close.” An hour later, with the sentence still in your head, you’re sitting in the cinema and Taylor Swift’s face is in front of you in a real close-up, as close and close in front of you as the faces you normally only know, as Kehlmann says.
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