It's also the film in which Truffaut dramatizes, in antic form, the kind of truly horrific childhood that he didn't even dare put in "The 400 Blows"; the sort of self-destructive erotic obsession that was close to his own experience (and that he'd return to in later films); the fusion of life experience with artistic creation; and even the odd influence of Hitchcock's films on Truffaut himself.
Even if the Coen brothers didn't exactly answer together at the conference, this may offer a numerological explanation of what it means: the movie is a fusion of their experience.
A jazz fusion album, Songs of Experience explores darker sounds than its predecessor, as the poems Axelrod drew on for inspiration dealt with the darker side of humanity.
A jazz fusion album, Songs of Experience was partly inspired by Gunther Schuller's Third Stream concept, which fused American jazz with European classical music.
The key ingredient, by far, was the enthusiastic collaboration of participants across missions, data sets, disciplines, and nations to produce a fusion of knowledge and experience focused on understanding the state of the Sun-Earth system during extreme space weather.
"We became a sort of fusion of all those experiences and ideas.
"It makes couples vulnerable to 'emotional fusion' — the experience of being overly dependent on and reactive to each other's ups and downs".
If there's a thesis to the film, it's the fusion of inner and outer experience, of self-knowledge and knowledge of the ways of the world.
Driven by market demands, American petroleum companies pioneered new technologies, organised research initiatives, and trained young geophysicists who, through the fusion of experimentalism and field experience, brought about fundamental progress in earthquake seismology.
This has not happened to date, and we will report back when that changes, or after six months of experience with the fusion journal, whichever is the sooner.
