Film Watch

Notre Musique, 2004
Jean-Luc Godard

Film Watch

Der Handler der vier Jahreszeiten, 1972
[The Merchant of Four Seasons]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Technique:
• Reflection of uneasy relations using continuous, extended, panning shot of Hans having dinner with his family, with his sister at the head of the table - appearing literally and metaphorically out of the norm.
  

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In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden, 1978
[In a Year of 13 Moons]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Critic Arquello:

Fassbinder's familiar imagery of framing characters through rectangular passageways (particularly vestibules and doorways) that underscore their isolation is further magnified in the idiosyncratically hermetic image of Elvira traversing the corridor of a near vacant office building in search of Saintz that reinforces her profound, inescapable isolation. It is this image of the "outsider among outsiders" - a theme similarly explored in Fassbinder's earlier film 'Fox and His Friends' - that invariably underpins the desperate, inarticulable tragedy of the film: the systematic disembodiment of humanity and suppression of personal identity in the desolate reality of primal survival, pleasure seeking, material gain, and unthinking conformity.