Go for launch . . . And we have lift off . . .Episode Six Part Two of the Victoria Wilson Foster Hirsch podcast in which we conclude our discussion of the magic of Jean Renoir’s 1951 Technicolor masterpiece, The River, set in Bengal on the Ganges, based on the Rumer Godden semi-autobiographical novel of the same name.  Renoir’s film takes place in a lush jungle garden, in and around a big white house with green shutters and a double verandah; white and yellow flowers fill the garden beds and lawns and roll away to the river under the trees.  There’s a gate that opens out to another India . . .But inside the gates are Harriet and Melanie, Captain John and Victoria, Bogey and don’t forget, Little Hoppity . . . Watch out for The Cobra in the Garden, under the Peepul tree, drawn by the saucers of milk left as offerings.  Bogey is calling to the snake by flute  . . .and cobras do what cobras do . . . and there’s going to be trouble . . .As Captain John says to Harriet, “We are born again or die a little bit, big deaths and little ones; big births and little ones, with each thing that happens to us, each new incident, with each person we meet if they are important to us. It is called growing and it is often painful and difficult . . .”  A world of discovery and life, first love and joy, tears and heartbreak in the gardens of Renoir’s paradise where all is not as it appears.  Episode Six Part Two,  On the Art of the Arts - A Cobra in the Garden -  V WIlson