Quite good. A laid-back and ethereal atmosphere. The anxieties and excitement of teenage crush wrapped in an ethnographic surreal dream. Not all of its magical realist elements work, but they definitely save the film from becoming yet another forgettable coming-of-age romance.
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The Carabineers 1963
The early, primitive experience of visual art was “magical”. Palaeolithic artists saw little difference between art and reality. For instance, when a member of Sioux tribes noticed the anthropologist Levy-Bruhl preparing sketches, he said: ‘I know that this man has put many of our bisons into his book. I was there when he did it, and since then we have had no bisons.’ The bison in the sketch, for him, was not a representation of a bison. It was the…
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