Post by Vendaval Este on Apr 29, 2010 8:22:36 GMT
Liverpool's FACT centre often has many event nights for non-mainstream movies, this was one of them.
The first film shown was Night & Fog, a narration-only documentary on concentration camps that is poetic in its style. Shots of Jewish corpses are primarily static but are nevertheless used mercilessly, feeling more shocking than a still image in any history book, and footage of the corpses being bulldozed and thrown into ditches feels perverse. The shocking thing is this was made 10 years after WW2, fittingly so though.
The second film was Hiroshima mon Amour, a film that was one of the first in the French New Wave, it focuses exclusively on the infatuation between a French woman and a Japanese man in post-war Hiroshima. The only two characters are never named until the end and it is a slow-moving film, though it's paced well at 90 minutes, not to mention, the cinematography is great, just about every scene is beautifully shot. This was actually directed by the same guy who did Night & Fog as well, good evening overall.
The first film shown was Night & Fog, a narration-only documentary on concentration camps that is poetic in its style. Shots of Jewish corpses are primarily static but are nevertheless used mercilessly, feeling more shocking than a still image in any history book, and footage of the corpses being bulldozed and thrown into ditches feels perverse. The shocking thing is this was made 10 years after WW2, fittingly so though.
The second film was Hiroshima mon Amour, a film that was one of the first in the French New Wave, it focuses exclusively on the infatuation between a French woman and a Japanese man in post-war Hiroshima. The only two characters are never named until the end and it is a slow-moving film, though it's paced well at 90 minutes, not to mention, the cinematography is great, just about every scene is beautifully shot. This was actually directed by the same guy who did Night & Fog as well, good evening overall.
