Spinach Tennis

If you're ever feeling bored with your plain old normal life with its plain old normal overcooked vegetables and want to feel the strange excitement of being a naughty adolescent bourgeois French boy, then put on a dress shirt and tie, top it with a wool sweater vest and try playing some spinach tennis à la Louis Malle's Le souffle au coeur (Murmur of the Heart). As demonstrated in the first couple minutes of this scene:



I poached the clip from the talented Brazilian writer/journalist/editor extraordinaire Emilio Fraia. Even if you don't read Portuguese, he puts a lot of cool photos and clips on his blog.