A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
12 Mar Amateur (1994)
Abstract Porn
Hartley is one of the most interesting directors working. Many associate him with French auteurs, but I think his experiments are more intellectual, more New York. His films are not only about other films, but exist in a world abstracted from them where almost everyone else insists on wallowing in the same space they reference.
This is still an early work, which I had the opportunity to see with its purported referent: “Band of Outsiders.”
Writing as a fulcrum; performance as porn; film humour as a self-aware deadpan. Sex as an abstract creation. Pain as an act.
Huppert as walking hair, early Posey on her way to Jackie K.
Posted in 2004
Ted’s Evaluation — 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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