As you enter Annette Messager’s touring retrospective ‘The Messengers’ (in French: ‘Les Messagers’), the first thing to meet – or rather, rush up to and introduce itself, with a firm yet clammy grip, to – your eye is a cartoon bat pasted onto the opposite wall of the ante-room. Its eyes are two breasts; its [...]
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‘Wendy and Lucy’: losing, losing, lost.
Posted in Drang, tagged kelly reichardt, six stars, wendy and lucy on March 8, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Wendy and Lucy is a very slow, elegiac film about a young woman, Wendy, whose car breaks down whilst she is travelling across America. She is arrested for shoplifting and loses her beloved dog Lucy. She spends most of the film looking for her and trying to get her car fixed. It’s a peculiar, gentle [...]
5/10. See me after ‘The Class’
Posted in Drang, tagged la haine, lauren cantet, palme d'or, the class on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As the banlieuex burned in the wake of the student protests in Paris in late 2007, they turned the city into a beacon for France’s seemingly intractable social difficulties. The notoriously poor integration of immigrant communities into the mainstream of French culture has been the subject for films before – most famously La Haine, a [...]
