VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS * Article originally published in Eugênio Puppo & Mateus Araújo (ed.) Godard Inteiro ou o Mundo em Pedaços (São Paulo: Heco Produções, 2015), 280. Translation from Portuguese by Fábio Andrade. One of the few artistic strategies that have survived the many distinct phases of Jean Luc-Godard’s work is the pun. Often associated with comedy, for Godard the […]
Archives for March 2018
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Chantal Akerman
* Originally published at Cinética, December 14th, 2017. VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS Everything happens The book by the Brazilian researcher and scholar Ivone Margulies on the work of Chantal Akerman holds in its title a synthesis of what’s required of the spectator by a film such as Jeanne Dielman: nothing happens. The title is a witty […]
Western (2017), Valeska Grisebach
VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The conquest of the West If seen as a piece of drama, Western, by Valeska Grisebach, either offers too many entry points or not enough. There’s the beauty of the landscape, the muted naturalism of the non-professional actors, the precision of the cinematography, the allusion to geopolitical conflicts, and even a hint […]