LES RENDEZ-VOUS D'ANNA (1978)
dir. Chantal Akerman
Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. He asks her to a birthday lunch with his mother and daughter; she goes. Afterward, in Cologne, she meets an old friend, a Polish Jew and war refugee. In Brussels, she spends the night at a hotel with her mother, whom she rarely sees. On the train, a stranger tells his story. Last, it's home to Paris, where her lover Daniel picks her up and they go to a hotel. Throughout, people make personal revelations to her, and Anna listens with little affect. Although it was 30 years ago, the war seems ever present.
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the meetings of anna (1978, chantal akerman)
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watched 47 films in may…. top ten fav cinema experiences of the month (no order, star means rewatch):
MS Slavic 7 (2019) dir. Deragh Campbell, Sofia Bohdanowicz
Lake Forest Park (2021) dir. Kersti Jan Werdal
Vortex (2022) dir. Gaspar Noe
Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (1958) dir. Louis Malle
King Lear (1987) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
*L’Annee dernière à Marienbad (1961) dir. Alain Resnais
Kung-Fu Master! (1988) dir. Agnes Varda
Fresh Kill (1994) dir. Shu Lea Cheang
Les Rendez-vous d’Anna (1978) dir. Chantal Akerman
*The Panic in Needle Park (1971) dir. Jerry Schatzberg
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Les Rendez-vous d'Anna, Chantal Akerman, 1978
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Not even the thrilling, rippling ghost / Of my most ecstatic love
Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Anno Domini MCMXXI; from ‘We won’t meet. We are in different camps…’, tr. Judith Hemschemeyer
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"Disney's princess needs to have more diverse personalities!" Yes true, sure, but also
Disney's first three Princesses (Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora) are all graceful, sweet, like singing songs about dreams and wishes, and do not actively fight: "omg they're such anti-feminist caricatures!!!"
Disney's next princesses have more established emotions and personalities, alongside the establishment of the "I Want" song as applied to motives outside of love (exploration, adventure, making their family proud): "OMG Ariel traded her voice for a man, how stupid!" "Belle's so stuck-up!" "Jasmine's just a spoiled brat!"
Tiana's a dedicated hard worker, loves her family a lot, and wants her loved ones to be very happy even at her own expense and gets... totally ignored in this conversation, gee I wonder why
Rapunzel, Anna, and now Asha are a little bit awkward, silly, but exuberant and get written off as "stupid adorkable" despite the other tenets of their personalities setting them apart, like Rapunzel's creativity, Anna's dedication to her family, and how Asha strives to help those around her
Moana gets called a disobedient brat for seeing beyond her father's narrow-mindedness
Disney Princesses have many wonderfully different personalities. It's just that people are dedicated to misinterpreting them, and that's why I never take the "Disney Princesses need more diverse personalities!" comment at face value.
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this is what i want for evil ladynoir
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