"The great Agnes Varda's roots as a photojournalist and documentarian allow her to layer this story into a backdrop of quotidian beauty. Cleo's journey through the streets of Paris is a stream of jump cuts and micro-vignettes: faces outside a cafe, street performers, a simple cab ride, with the occasional intrusion of the news from the Algerian front or of some local politics. The outside world penetrating our own insular one, shocking Cleo, and us, into empathy." ~ Matt Lynch
Click here for the full essay.
No comments:
Post a Comment