Master of light and grain and atmospheric feeling. Rohmer, gifted with the aesthetic sense to know the value in what is fleeting or fragmentary and fragmented, interrupted, that which ebbs and flows and is not at all consistent. Perennially so gentle in bringing us near to discover the pores of
Contains all of that beautiful gentle blue light, early morning pastels, and infinite hues of white characteristic of a lot of 70s-80s European cinema (Rohmer, Pialat et al.). Contains beautiful shallow focus shots of faces, bodies between social layers of others. In A Secular Age, Charles Taylor characterises the
The Beast is a film of inhabitation. Its sectioned, temporally expansive narrative strands avoid the cosmic gimmick of the Wachowskis Cloud Atlas. Anchored instead in a space that updates and changes the felt and material markers of historical and geographical time while keeping something constant across all of it: the