Aspen

” God is everywhere, but you can feel his presence more keenly on those snowy slopes in Aspen, Colorado, than in high summer in Denver, stuck in a traffic jam.” Frederick Wiseman examines closely the White Christian Anglo-Saxon society holidaying in the most famous ski resort in the United States. Of course, people ski, do muscle development exercices, lie in the sun or give wedding parties in hot-air balloons, but oddly enough they also seem to indulge in brain storming sessions in the numerous hotels that glitter throughout the valley. In one of them, specialists in plastic surgery hold a meeting and shape the woman of the future. ” The only means of growing old harmoniously is to resort to plastic surgery. If you show me a beautiful woman, I’ll show you a fine chin bone ! “