MOVIE #2,291 • SCORE 7/10 • 02.13.24
SERIES: ALBERT & AKERMAN
To make cinema you have to get out of bed. Cinema is made standing up. Both Akerman and Aurore Clément tell us this. What follows is an increasingly poetic look inside the creative process in this 8-minute short that aired on French TV featuring both the auteur and her The Meetings of Anna star. We learn that the Pope is just a man, and that Akerman is Jewish. And that an orange isn’t an apple and, perhaps, an apple is not an apple…
In the end, she mentions both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gremlins…
Raiders of the Lost Ark and Gremlins are indeed not like A Whole Night: I agree. Some cinema is made for the masses and other cinema is made for your friends (who really just want the cinema of the masses). That checks out too, and seems more than reasonable as well. A Whole Night cost ₣250,000 (she tells us so). Raiders cost $20,000,000 (per Wikipedia). What's $19,750,000 between friends? (give or take conversion and inflation rates)
When I searched "gremlins" on this site to find the link above, the results were very interesting, cosmic even. I'm on the right path...
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A filmmaker’s self-portrait, asking hard questions of herself and of us. Invoking Aurore Clément as a kind of stand-in or proxy, a glamorous counterpart to Akerman who sports a drawn-on moustache. What is cinema for? Who is it for? If the Mosaic prohibition on making graven images includes film images, then where does that leave a Jewish filmmaker? It was released on June 5, 1985.
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