Change Your Image
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Reviews
Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Städten (1989)
an essay
Wenders have succeeded in turning an assignment he got by the Pompidou centre into a work that's actually rather fascinating. It's a really fresh essay film. It doesn't tell so much about it's subject the fashion designer, but reflects on more abstract issues like art and fashion, and time and timelessness, and subjectivity and objectivity.
Although I felt it was very beautiful and fascinating, I thought that it maybe lacked in urgency somewhat - the fashion designer and all the persons in the film remained really distant. But at the same time I found it fresher and not so over-elaborated as some of Wenders movies. For friends of essay-movies and the late movies of Godard it's highly recommended.
Le gai savoir (1969)
Something of the ultimate montage movie
One rather confusing film. Apparently deliberately so. I enjoyed it thoroughly though.
Some of the themes seemed to be:
May 68
The inability to get rid of bourgeois society
Sexuality - as something that brings together but rips apart
Language
Knowledge
As usually with Godard it's also an statement about film - and in this case more than usually. It ends with Godards voice-over over a completely black screen saying something like that this is not the film that should be made, but that all films that will be made should have something that is this film.