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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris 1970
“I can’t lead a movment, but I can fuck up your mind”
The concept of auteur theory completely falls apart when applied to the documentary Baldwin in Paris. The filmmakers have failed to approach the subject with any iota of humility, and the consequence is that James Baldwin and the other black men who appear in the movie refuse to give the filmmakers what they want. They are accused of being hostile, but in reality, they are protecting their image…
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Return to Seoul 2022
There is a sequence at the beginning of return to Seoul that serves to announce the dialectic of the film. It is the scene in which the protagonist Freddie, a young 25 year-old woman who was born in South Korea and adopted by white French parents, speaks with a Korean native young woman and describes the practice of “sight-reading”. It is a method that an experienced musician uses when performing a piece of music that they have never seen before.…
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