Screened at UPP: Q&A with Fabrice Aragno
For a while now i’ve dreamt of experiencing Godard in the cinema, the small screen cannot do it justice and the home projector nor suffices. Now it’s been a year; i’ve heard of Scenarios for a while and dreamt of a chance to see it one way or another and sitting at home, amidst an exam, amidst a plan I see a chance to see it; I buy it anyways, i cancel it…
I left Iran in 2011, 13 years ago and since then I would only visit it every 3-4 years, each visit becomes more exhausting and by the most recent of ones; almost 2 months ago, it’s lost almost all of what it had, the magic has almost completely gone and whilst people are fighting back, women are finally breaking free, the country is dead, it’s gone and it’s been gone for quite a while. I think that’s where the analogy…
you forget how much of a shithole the UK truly is until people like Andrea Arnold and Alan Clarke remind you - when i migrated here I lived in Glasgow first and i share nothing but terrible memories; the greatest of those being romanticised memories of how terrible it was; somehow here on a rewatch Andrea Arnold makes Glasgow worst than it already is - it’s dystopian; physically makes me sick to look at all together
Something of this truly got under my skin - for one certainly all points to Robbie Williams being so little of a talented intellectual that for the promotion of this creature on several times it would be described by Robbie as “their attempt to spice up the biopic” - that itself says it all, at least Robbie Williams is clueless enough to admit it how frightening of a corporate product this is but it’s only as you watch this film…
really something special, couldn’t remember the last film that made me tear up so much. Love Andrew Haigh so much, in a cruel world where Xavier Dolan has deserted us, It’s only my dream that Andrew Takes his spot, really one of the greatest contemporary directors, has such a sensitive touch and such a special beauty to his films and they are all just so so devastating, ‘all of us strangers’ is really a perfect film, such good music, such a incredible ending, it would take too long to say it all, all i know is i need this on dvd neowwwww
a remarkable film not only for its significance as the first ‘black film’ but as a deeply personal; surrealist and exemplified portrait of emotional displacement. As a first generation immigrant in many ways this resonates and sticks out; certainly at points it enters a hyperbolic state so exaggerated and unexplainable that it destroys the reality, but in other senses it focuses on minute details that build a diasporic identity; one that resonates being dialect and voice; of the utilisation of…
