Yet another remarkable documentary by Chris Marker, Description d’un combat (Hatzad Hashlishi Shel Hamatbaya) comes from France and Israel. It is about Israel: according to an ancient promise, the land that would come to be. Made when modern Israel was not quite thirteen years old, the film finds Israel poised for the future and in […]
Daily Archives: November 13, 2007
Don’t be afraid. With women, everything is possible.” — Manuela to Claude, before they make love for the first time, which is also either’s first time making love to a woman My sterile womb contains only darkness. — Holocaust survivor Bacha, who, past possibility, intuits that Claude and Manuela, who has been her aide and […]
Dennis Grunes 