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One Sings, the Other Doesn’t – 1977 Varda
- A varied work from Varda—has elements that touches her documentary/realism roots (we have abortion and suicide in the first half hour), her photography background (some great montages of women in b/w photography in the opening), socio-political (feminism), and strong use of color like 1965’s Le Bonheur (though instead of that film’s yellows this is heavy in green and some purple)
- A saga really- a tale of two women living parallel lives, friends that are very different, that sometimes intertwine
- The title is right on—there’s a lot of music here
- Some messy narrative voice changing formal issues
- Stylized letters and post-cards in close-up, colored gorgeous and placed in the frame like Wes Anderson
- Disillusionment, tragedy- realism– society as a bit of a prison for these two women- very good characters.
- Some nice heavy color saturations in the mise-en-scene—a sea of green, purples— one we have a green kitchen utensils, a green staircase—believably designed color pattern in the mise-en-scene—
- Dissolve editing
- A great 360 shot near the end with many characters sitting in a circle—we have green grass between them
- Ends on the characters daughter in the coda—a great ending—she’s in a green/purple shirt and then we fade to green
- Recommend
Drake2020-07-03T10:29:16+00:00
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