Bambi Meets Godzilla, Part Deux
saw it at nyu, as a cinema grad student. chantal akerman attended. she was in town fir the premiere of her commercial flop tgat starred wm hurt and j binoche, a couch in ny. the other grad students loved it. i hated it. compression is one of the hallmarks of movie story-telling, and the movie chosr not to ude it, instead making us suffer the tedium and boredom of the main chatacter. this was the artistic choice of the director, on the anti-bourgoise postmodernists love as it proved, in their minds, that the role of homemaker and mother and wife are degrading, dehumanuzing and anti-femininist. and thats why it won this poll, too: ideology over aesthetics. the star of the film, the beautiful delphine seyrig - buried in the cemetery montpatnasde, also starred in last year at marienbaf, a masterpiece of surrealism.
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