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.
Tony becomes Shirley’s driver and goes with him on tour of the American South. The real purpose of a virtuoso who lives alone above Carnegie Hall is not to earn money, but to contribute to the slow process of the racial equation in places where it is most difficult.
It was probably only a matter of time before an interactive movie appeared on one of big streaming platforms. The online environment seems to be ideal for interaction with the viewer, who will decide the hero’s fate with one click.
TellTellingCinema is a non-cyclical series of podcasts devoted to cinema related issues.
In the second episode I talk about the 93th Academy Awards and the presence of disabled people during the gala.
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