tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326335.post8713200605670908388..comments2023-06-16T11:04:04.845-04:00Comments on Cinemasparagus: Certified Copycraig keller.http://www.blogger.com/profile/04633188566264641743noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326335.post-83339284847495572062011-04-28T22:57:19.758-04:002011-04-28T22:57:19.758-04:00Exactly. It's dress-up and role-play, and it&#...Exactly. It's dress-up and role-play, and it's also the reality of the film.<br /><br />It's quantum cinema. Both the diegetic reality and the proposed 'play' all at once. Both a fiction and an essay at once.<br /><br />It's "two opposing ideas" being held in the mind at once. <br /><br />It's also one of Kiarostami's only (is Kiarostami's only?) direct reference to specific films, or rather modes of specific cinema-idiom for the purpose of his own cinematographic inquiry — as you say, <b><i>Voyage in Italy</i></b>, — and also <b><i>The Red Desert</i></b>, <b><i>La notte</i></b>, Italian theater, <b><i>The Golden Coach</i></b>, and late Buñuel, etc....<br /><br />Beyond quantum it's also relativistic cinema; when we latch onto the above aspect one of the 'entries' that we have to give faith to is an accelerated time-span inside of A Relationship, passing through the phases. And, as said, the phases pass through a certain vein of cinema history, but it's not necessary to 'connect all the dots' here anymore than it is to try and peg where the segments of "Aeolus" in <b><i>Ulysses</i></b> correspond to the details of Homer's sequence.<br /><br />ck.craig keller.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04633188566264641743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20326335.post-56165813841128725612011-04-27T11:45:10.853-04:002011-04-27T11:45:10.853-04:00the " I Live You" tag could not be more ...the " I Live You" tag could not be more apt. A love story as dress up and role play. Also a road film: gaining momentum and complications with each tangential fork in the road...almost a circular, absurdist response to Rossellini's Voyage to Italy. <br /> this film totally caught me off guard..awesome.Her, Suzanne76https://www.blogger.com/profile/08333732184740497367noreply@blogger.com