Perry Blake, “Widows by the Radio”

Perry Blake, “Widows by the Radio”, From the Album “Perry Blake” Photography by Margarida Dias

Drink to our demolished home
Where loss resides alone
Like a widow by the radio
Child, childhood is a place
Where sorrow comes of age
A widow by the radio

Perry Blake, “This Time It’s Goodbye”

This song is in the soundtrack of the French-Belgian romantic drama film “Presque Rien (Come Undone)” directed by Sebastien Lifshitz. It depicts the stormy holiday romance between two 18 year-old guys and what remains of that relationship eighteen months later. It stars Jérémie Elkaïm as Mathieu and Stephane Rideau playing the character of Cedric. Rather than having a clear, chronologically ordered narrative, the movie switches between the summer and the winter plotlines, depicting the differences in Mathieu’s life at both points.