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Paris Calligrammes (2020)

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Country: GER/FR
Technical: bw/col 129m
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Cast: doc.

Synopsis:

The artist and filmmaker reminisces over her formative years in Paris during the 60s, with different sections of the film devoted to the eponymous bookshop, the art scene, the cinema, student protest etc.

Review:

Unless you are steeped in the contemporary movements of the arts, much of this will pass you by, though the archive footage of Les Halles, for example, and the Langlois Cinémathèque, is fascinating. Overall it is just too long, with too much of the director's VoiceOver (apparently we also hear Fanny Ardant and Jenny Agutter, which was news to me). Judging from the samples of her film-making subsequently, Ottinger should have stuck to poster art.

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Country: GER/FR
Technical: bw/col 129m
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Cast: doc.

Synopsis:

The artist and filmmaker reminisces over her formative years in Paris during the 60s, with different sections of the film devoted to the eponymous bookshop, the art scene, the cinema, student protest etc.

Review:

Unless you are steeped in the contemporary movements of the arts, much of this will pass you by, though the archive footage of Les Halles, for example, and the Langlois Cinémathèque, is fascinating. Overall it is just too long, with too much of the director's VoiceOver (apparently we also hear Fanny Ardant and Jenny Agutter, which was news to me). Judging from the samples of her film-making subsequently, Ottinger should have stuck to poster art.


Country: GER/FR
Technical: bw/col 129m
Director: Ulrike Ottinger
Cast: doc.

Synopsis:

The artist and filmmaker reminisces over her formative years in Paris during the 60s, with different sections of the film devoted to the eponymous bookshop, the art scene, the cinema, student protest etc.

Review:

Unless you are steeped in the contemporary movements of the arts, much of this will pass you by, though the archive footage of Les Halles, for example, and the Langlois Cinémathèque, is fascinating. Overall it is just too long, with too much of the director's VoiceOver (apparently we also hear Fanny Ardant and Jenny Agutter, which was news to me). Judging from the samples of her film-making subsequently, Ottinger should have stuck to poster art.

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