Recommend Billy Wilder film is like recommending a healthy lifestyle, eat fruit and do some exercise. Needless to say, simply do so. You can not not see, are master classes for young directors, actors emerging, and the film crew of all its branches. But best of all is that they are films for the public, devilishly entertaining, exciting, captivating stories that will sift uncontrollable comedy taking you to the most terrible tragedy, sometimes with just a few minutes apart.

Today Sunday, waiting for the sun squeezing both and, thus, able to work in the garden, because work is, and well, I have reviewed some evidence of it: The Sunset Boulevard , Double Indemnity and Witness for the Prosecution . Three films, three women: Gloria Swanson, Barbara Stanwyck and Marlene Dietrich. And three characters: Norma Desmond, Phyllis Dietrichson and Christine Vole. I could not have been a most delightful Sunday, as he did not pass one time.

When this night I went outside and I smelled the wet grass, I remembered the words of Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity:

It was a hot afternoon and I still remember the smell of honeysuckle in the street. How do you not know that sometimes the smell of honeysuckle murder?

I propose something, something to warm summer nights, those in which the windows of the houses are open wide, hoping to steal a slight breeze at dawn. One suggestion for those long nights: a film by Billy Wilder. They are good for the soul.

-Roque.

PS: by the way, Billy Wilder made his last movie in 1981, here, a friend . He could not roll over in Hollywood because insurers feared for his age had to be forced to leave the shooting or dies suddenly. He died 21 years later. I always remember this story, terrible, incidentally.