Cinema

Battleship Potemkin

Odessa, Odessa! How spirited must you be? Millions pour through your streets to reach your pier. Packeted together like shrimps, your frosty tendons froth with

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Pratidwandi

What must it be like for one to be cosmically intertwined with a filmmaker? To have him populate the dots that have been rapped out

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The Trial of Joan of Arc

The shortest work of Bresson is, in more than a few ways, an interesting microcosm. There abounds an abstract borrowing of narrative and stylistic markers;

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Diary of a Country Priest

Rushing through MUBI’s monthly dribble last year, I chanced upon Diary of a Country Priest. With the highest of praises that preceded Bresson, I decided

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Mouchette

Mouchette is perhaps the most afflicted protagonist in all of Bresson’s films. She’s slapped, bullied, sexually taunted, raped, slut-shamed, and yet, she is still a

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