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Journey to Italy 1954
The word “portrait” comes from the Old French portraire, meaning “to portray”. A portrait, as the dictionaries insist, is “a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one
depicting only the face or head and shoulders”.Some faces – or should I say most? – are forgettable, tragically so: at a first glance, their commonness renders them almost indistinguishable from countless others, their features neither sharp nor soft, just there, existing in a dull in-between. Yet, there are…
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My Night at Maud's 1969
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When asked why he chose black-and-white as the color palette for Ma Nuit Chez Maud (1968), the third installment in his Contes Moreaux series, Éric Rohmer explained: “Because it suited the nature of the subject-matter. Color wouldn’t have added anything positive to it; on the contrary, it would only have destroyed the atmosphere of the film and introduced distracting elements that had no useful purpose. (…) I was concerned above all with…
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The Passenger 1975
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Architecture and space are core aspects of Antonioni’s œuvre: they are the frameworks through which we understand his characters’ inner worlds. The Passenger (1975), the final installment in his English-language trilogy, is a beautiful testament to the sophistication and empathy with which the director uses these elements to handle concepts of existential malaise, mortality, and identity.
This is the tale of David Locke, a renowned yet disillusioned journalist who is presently in…
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