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Event Date as Display String:

Sunday, January 19, 2020, 7:00pm - 8:25pm

Location:

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

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/passing-summer-2020-01

Event Description:

The German title, "My Slow Life," may reveal a bit more about
Valerie's central — yet physically more passive and immobile —
position in the film. As in all of Schanelec's films, the apparent
slowness is an illusion: life continues to dramatically unfold
throughout the most nondramatic of moments, and so much happens in
between cuts that the scenes seem to carry that much more weight.
Valerie's experience mirrors that of the audience's trying to figure
out who she is, where she fits within the tangle of relationships
among siblings, spouses, lovers, friends and acquaintances. And
perhaps Valerie is also like the film itself: directionless,
maintaining a certain distance and ambivalence, yet pulled into the
ebbs and flows, the oceans and lakes regardless. Miraculously, the
formal, oblique aspects of Schanelec's cinema make space for abrupt,
surprising emotions and allow for a natural sense of intimacy. Her
characters are sometimes reduced to small figures who remain in wide
shots for whole sequences; only in the inverse universe of Schanelec
does this distance seem to bring them closer.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Sunday, January 19, 2020 - 19:00 to 20:25

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