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The Beaches of Agnès 2008
This is, as it were, an attempt to make an autobiography without centering the self -- a frank impossibility, were it not that so much of Varda's life is already directed outwards, towards objects, people, scenes, materials. The attention of the film therefore falls not on Varda's memories, as much as on the gaps between Varda and that world -- gaps that are full of pleasure, chance, creativity, and error, as Varda makes new memories out of old ones, replacing…
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Leila and the Wolves 1984
Fell in love with this film after hearing Heiny Srour describe it as a retelling of the Arabian Nights. Scheherezade's pursuit and maintenance of a never-ending narrative here becomes Leila's pursuit and maintenance of a specifically revolutionary narrative -- one in which women play the role of protagonists. There is much in the way of fabulation, invention, transformation and metamorphosis -- but in a different way: bullets are disguised as food, guns are hidden beneath drapery. Women become fighters, and…
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A Couch in New York 1996
So beautiful! The constant little gaps of desire -- the mismatch between what we want and what we get, who we think we are and how we are seen, what we try to say and what we end up saying -- are anything but tragic in this film. Instead, everyone in the film -- and the filmmaker herself, perhaps -- is improvising and inventing, aspiring to create a world of pleasure (however incoherent) that always seems to be around the…
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