The Enchantment Of Things

When do things, or people, or places, gain a sense of sacredness?

There’s a line in the French movie Summer Hours (trailer here) that leaped out at me on this, my fifth viewing of the movie. I don’t have it perfectly from the transcript, but the line says something like, “Things can only be enchanted in a human context.”

This is a key line from the film, which, as I have written here, is about the disintegration of a …