On-the-spot documentaries can capture the most unshakable things. La insurreción de la burguesía, the first part of La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas (top prize, Grenoble), the immense tripartite film directed by Patricio Guzmán and produced (and partially shot?) by Chris Marker, ends with a stunning moment. Democratically elected Salvador […]
Daily Archives: March 2, 2010
The key to grasping Carlos Saura’s sad, beautifully crafted although somewhat arid Antonieta is to grasp, first, that its protagonist is not, as one might think, Antonieta Rivas Mercado, an actual Mexican writer who committed suicide inside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1931, but instead Anna, the French woman writing about her a half-century […]
Dennis Grunes 