As its name suggests, a film mostly about ‘two’s’. What’s in front and what’s behind, and so the ‘two’ is what is hidden, perhaps for us now, in plain sight, but as always with Godard and Miéville they’re ahead of their time and this film exposes what’s hidden/behind. Early on the question is asked why we always say “once upon a time”, “Why not twice upon a time?” Once is a single history, in this case of male domination in…
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Berlin Horse 1970
Disruption a pattern, turned to rhythm. Fragments of light, as though the images become a painting. Endlessly mechanical. Muybridge. Workers leaving the factory (a horse leaving the factory). Such a cinema-conscious film. Ironic Le Grice wanted to make films that were not escapist because this is like a lullaby - I'd be pretty content watching this on repeat for the rest of my life. And to see it on 16!!! So perfect.
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La Chimera 2023
I truly went into this film both expecting and hoping to like it considering there has seemed to only be positive reviews, and in the first scene I really thought my wish was materialising into a reality. A lens cap being pulled off to reveal Beniamina and, if my memory serves me right, there was some verbal address between what we find out to be the dreaming Arthur and the dead ‘ghostly’ Beniamina, something to do with the sun I…
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