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Event Date as Display String:

Saturday, January 18, 2020, 9:00pm - 10:35pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/marseille

Event Description:

The film begins with a simple, auspicious premise: Sophie in Berlin
switches flats for a while with a woman in Marseille. Her reasons are
unclear. Anything could happen. Schanelec understands the actual depth
and expanse of this proposition. What may appear to be a set-up to one
particular narrative is only one part of a larger web of possibilities
and stories, presented in varying degrees of focus and clarity. Both
Sophie and the audience may be figuring out together the reasons for
her carefree trip, the role of her photography and photography in
general, her relationship to Ivan and to Hanna — an actress whose
troubled persona on and off stage begins to dominate the film.
Sophie's eventual return to the film's center coincides with her
return to the blank slate of Marseille, only to receive an unexpected,
jarring welcome. As Schanelec notes in a diary written during the
making of the film, "I don't want to explain anything, only report,
like Walter Benjamin says: 'present events, as it were, dry, draining
them entirely of psychological explanations and opinions of every
sort.' They should speak sentences like involuntary gestures,
sentences that they know nothing about and whose sound, should they
even become aware of it, would surprise them."

UID:

http://uid.trumba.com/event/141534852

Event Start Date as Date Type:

Saturday, January 18, 2020 - 21:00 to 22:35

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