The song, Marigny Tumble, was written as a celebration of life in the Faubourg Marigny before Hurricane Katrina. It’s a romance of a frayed and radiant place and time, and of that time’s compulsively creative denizens, their strivings scattered on the breeze like the incense of the coffee roasting warehouses … “bitter, yes, but promise in the air.” The Marigny Tumble film short evokes the spirit of that time through a love story … a “Marigny Tumble” of the amorous kind. The narrative arc echoes the ‘overarching simplicity of form and harmonies’ in the song. But the film, like the music, is layered with nuance. And as with the song’s lyrics, solving the subtle mysteries you encounter along the way isn’t required to enjoy the beauty of the ride.