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Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60s in Brussels 1994
Quite a bunch of Films surrounding the movement of 68 have a very particular way of acting on display. They haste along the lines, desperately wanting to tell something for quite a long time. There is very much energy behind that seems to aim for the dreamed-of revolution, that didn't take place. Now all that energy must go somewhere, which seems to be the acting here (thereby probably perfectly displaying the mood of that time: awaiting something revolutionary that was…
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Eyes Wide Shut 1999
An assemblage of questions concerning that film:
Is anybody ever really looking into the camera? No, never but sometimes they edge doing so.
Does the camera desire or is the camera professionally distanced like a Doctor?
Is it not precisely that distancedness that makes Tom Cruise so desirable? What if the camera is distanced now?
How is the lighting always so warm and welcoming while everything keeps a slight touch of arctic coldness? And does it get warm, when the…Translated from by -
May December 2023
Wouldn't it have been even more interesting, if they were actually happy? If they were not only acting as if they were happy with that very problematic relationship? If the happiness wasn't just the crackling shell?
I know, it would be even more problematic to portrait a couple, where the woman was 36 and the boy 13 when they made their first kid, as living together totally happy but why not do the deed fully? Why not leave out the…Translated from by
