{"id":13036,"date":"2019-03-06T23:00:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T04:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13036"},"modified":"2019-03-06T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T03:49:18","slug":"bertrand-mandico-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13036","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Mandico shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

A UFO called The Wild Boys<\/a><\/em> made my top-ten list<\/a> of 2018, so I tracked down some shorts by the same director to see what he’s on about.<\/p>\n

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\nAny Virgin Left Alive<\/em> (2015)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A rude reimagining of the death of Joan of Arc (Elina L\u00f6wensohn). Only her eyes are burned, and she roams the battlefields in a metal mask, capturing and tormenting a young woman.<\/p>\n

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Amer<\/a><\/em>-reminiscent:
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\nOur Lady of Hormones<\/em> (2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two women come across a hairy, fleshy creature with a penile protuberance, squabble over its ownership and care. L\u00f6wensohn is eventually murdered with a sickle by Nathalie Richard (the great dancer from Up, Down, Fragile<\/a><\/em>). These shorts have the Argento-Maddin coloring of The Wild Boys<\/em>, and are similarly perverse fun. Narration by Michel Piccoli (currently his most recent credit), making this the Mandico film with the highest percentage of Rivette actors.<\/p>\n

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\nLiving Still Life<\/em> (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

A woman finds dead animals and poses them obsessively in stop-motion scenarios, stalked by a grieving man. Great sound and music and color, a perfect short, docked a couple points since I’ve recently seen A Zed and Two Noughts<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\nUltra Pulpe<\/em> (2018)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I am the most hated filmmaker of my generation, the tribal pornographer, the scavenger of the genre. Who will remember me?” Absolute madness involving women and other creatures on a film set. Pascale Granel shot everything else I’ve seen by Mandico, now Sylvain Verdet takes over… I don’t know either of them from anything else, just trying to keep up. L\u00f6wensohn and Richard are joined by Lola Cr\u00e9ton (Bastards<\/a><\/em>), two of the Wild Boys, and (as actors) the costume designer of Knife+Heart<\/em> and Michael Haneke’s casting director.<\/p>\n

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A UFO called The Wild Boys made my top-ten list of 2018, so I tracked down some shorts by the same director to see what he’s on about. – Any Virgin Left Alive (2015) A rude reimagining of the death of Joan of Arc (Elina L\u00f6wensohn). Only her eyes are burned, and she roams the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2509,91,927,21,590],"class_list":["post-13036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bertrand-mandico","tag-filmmaking","tag-joan-of-arc","tag-shorts","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13049,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13036\/revisions\/13049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}