NH19: Ashes will Remain
Olivier Laxe’s Fire Will Come proves that neomodernist cinema does not necessarily have to be lengthy. The latest film by the creator of warmly received Mimosas (NH16) is a showcase of neomodernism.
Olivier Laxe’s Fire Will Come proves that neomodernist cinema does not necessarily have to be lengthy. The latest film by the creator of warmly received Mimosas (NH16) is a showcase of neomodernism.
hu, having done a great selection work, shows cut fragments of streams, suggesting that perhaps these platforms gave the tenth muse a truly democratic value.
But Portrait of a Lady on Fire is not only a moving, feminine melodrama. It is a film created by a woman, in which women were responsible for the script, photos and editing, and only women appear on the screen, except for short anonymous moments at the beginning and end of the film.
The images that Diaz feeds us still hypnotize and incline to contemplation and spiritual experience of the film, realizing the creator’s assumption: “total cinema experience”.
Fans of Jim Jarmusch’s works perfectly remember the famous scene of prison break in Down by Law (1986). This scene – in which the act of escape was thrown out of the movie diegesis, and the action typical of detective story was left only to the imagination of the viewers – became one of the unwritten manifestos of slow cinema, and Jarmusch was granted the status of one of the godfathers of the trend, which soon will change cinema, returning a believe in the power of narration to the creators.
Many words have already been said about Midsommar, the latest film by one of the leading creators of A24 stable, Ari Aster. You can focus on the analysis proposed by the creator himself, that is – as Aster puts it – “apocalyptic breakup movie”, a parabola of toxic relationships, or a grotesque film that is entering the foreground and a surprisingly apt trip towards cultural anthropology.