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O.K. End Here (Robert Frank, USA 1963) |
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{mosimage} | Samstag | | 24.01.2009 | | | 15.00
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s/w | 30 min | eOF
| | Dieser Film läuft im Rahmen des Programmpunkts Fotografie 3 | | | Sunday atmosphere. A young middle-class couple is killing time with aimless actions, bored by each other and by their surrounding. Gestures and moves, which run into emptiness. Speechlessness. Attempts to bridge the existing gap, but immediately drifting apart. She: “Talk to me.” He: “When a woman says to a man: Talk to me, it’s like saying: Do you still love me?” A walk through the streets, in the evening in the restaurant, return to the apartment. Robert Frank’s short film about the standstill in a modern relationship from 1963 seems to be influenced in its narrative stance by the French Nouvelle Vague or by the films of Michelangelo Antonioni. Within the apartment the view of the camera switches between the two protagonists, who – similar to Antonioni’s films – often are seen only in part mostly at the utmost frame of the picture, spatially separated by walls, doors, reflections or the furniture. Just as the protagonists drift through the day rather anchorless and aimless, the camera in a similar way moves through their world. Occasionally it leaves the persons to cross the room or to wander about the furniture and objects, a roaming glance, which seems to be losing itself in neglibilities, but by doing so captures the existing atmosphere of routine, alienation and apathy.
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