{"id":14040,"date":"2021-01-19T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2021-01-16T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T20:15:29","slug":"lange-1982-patrick-bokanowski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14040","title":{"rendered":"L’Ange (1982, Patrick Bokanowski)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A swordsman attacks a doll hanging from a string… the motion freezes, stutters and repeats, and the music begins doing the same. A hand-less balding man seated at a table surrounded by inky blackness – his pitcher falls to the floor in a time-locked Brain Candy<\/em> loop, then appears in a Muybridge time-lapse still, with dark, severe string music. I think we’re inside one of the houses from The Endless<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Librarian and his eagle:<\/em>
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There’s a silly bathtime romp, a scene shot in reverse, a busy library in which all the all the old men are wearing the same old-man mask, the masks and their clockwork motion giving the thing a sense of animation. Naked woman in a wasteland gets trapped in a box. After these unrelated(?) vignettes (DVD description says they’re “all connected by a central staircase”), the last 15 minutes bring something new – all angles and bright lights, TV-static-beings tearing through the screen, revealing perhaps l’titular ange.<\/p>\n

Light:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

Rotterdam says it “lies on the edge between optical and plastic art, in a gap of constant reinvention.” Bokanowski had another hourlong light-vs-darkness film a few years ago which almost nobody has seen, though those few said it’s great, and he’s been producing shorts regularly since the 70’s.<\/p>\n

Bathed Man:<\/em>
\n<\/p>\n

More Light:<\/em>
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