Satyajit Ray: the seeing eye

Ray’s films look. That is the craft: patience, framing, the child’s eye, the ethical camera. Mercury and Venus are the tempting pair — speech and taste. Temptation, again, is not a time of birth.

This study stays with the public work and the day’s sky. Houses remain lightly held. If a better source for the hour appears, the reliability badge should move before the adjectives do.