“In order to have more children herself, Roswitha runs an abortion practice.” — the narrator Although its usual English-translated title sounds severe (Occasional Work of a Female Slave sounds better), West German writer-director Alexander Kluge’s Gelegenheitsarbeit einer Sklavin delights. Although its style is Godardian-disjointed, with photographs, film clips and voiceover narration interrupting, exceptional emotional fluidity […]
Daily Archives: October 28, 2010
Nada Abou Farhat won best actress prizes at Dubai and Bratislava for her hysterical emoting as Zeina, a wealthy divorced Shiite mother frantically searching for her six-year-old son in southern Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon War. Written by Philippe Aractingi, the film’s director, who himself was born in Beirut, and Michel Léviant, who has worked […]
Dennis Grunes 