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Near the end of the film, Janet discovers a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, an excerpt from the fourth of Rilke’s mystical “Duino Elegies.”

Her work draws inspiration from the painterly imagery of the Surrealists and the absurdity of the existentialists; at times it’s reminiscent of the rapture of Rilke’s “Duino Elegies,” at others of the linguistic oddity of César Vallejo’s “Trilce.”

Because I grew up in Australia where they call it “autumn,” fall, with its double meaning, still sounds strange to my ears, which may be why the shock makes me think of the final lines in Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Duino Elegies.”

I now also have a grand plan to read War and Peace, spend more time with Rilke’s Duino Elegies, and maybe drop in on some drawing classes.

“Necessity 7,” from 2007-09, incorporates Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Duino Elegies,” in English and German.