Déjà Vu

Overview

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Cast & crew

Anthony B. RichmondDirectorJaclyn Smithas Brooke / MaggieNigel Terryas Michael / GregShelley Wintersas Olga NabokovaClaire Bloomas Eleanor HarveyRRichard Kayas William Tanner (1935)Frank Gatliffas William Tanner (1984)MMichael Ladkinas WilmerMarianne Stoneas MabelRichard Graydonas Captain WilsonEElizabeth Cantillonas Dancer

• “We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time — of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances — of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remembered it!”

• “Often on the highway, weary and wary, we spurn the unknown and cheerfully drive on for the promise of a Howard Johnson's and its familiar déjà vu.”

• “The essential of the déjà vu is rather the negation of the present than the affirmation of the past.”

• “We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories … but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.”

• “When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.”

• “They [ Romantics ] all seem to have experienced paramnesia, the sensation of déjà vu, the total recollection which does not appear to be recollected; they all aimed at least at the total exclusion of the past from the present by a perfect absorption in the present, as if time stood still and became eternity.”

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