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I haven't liked all his stuff, but when he's on, he's my favourite contemporary director. Water Drops On Burning Rocks - his adaptation of a Fassbinder theatre script - is my favourite of his work, so much so I am tempted to go into incomprehensibly rapturous film studies rhetoric and talk about the hysterical austerity of the mis en scene, and I can't even remember if that's how you spell mis en scene, so clearly I shouldn't. But oh, that movie's great. I don't think 8 Women has show in Australia yet, but I'll look forward to it.
Incidentally, I am fascinated that you thought he was a woman since his style seems to me shriekingly gay (male), although presumably this was influenced by first seeing his work in the local queer film festival and knowing (from publicity) that he was a gay man. But I think the sensibility is very gay. |
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