While the technique of shot/reverse shot editing has become synonymous with lazy filmmaking in the modern era (because of how it often removes creativity from the process of shot selection, turning dialogue scenes into simple ping-pong matches), Diop imbues this technique with a fresh relevance: she refuses to show reverse angles when viewers are most likely to expect them, a strategy that eventually pays emotionally devastating dividends during a climactic exchange of glances where one character smiles while another silently weeps. Diop shoots Laurence from a different camera angle during each day of the trial, although she never deviates from this angle within each individual scene, lending a near-Bressonian formal rigor to the proceedings. The dialogue is based in part on transcripts from Kamou’s real-life trial, which lends the extended courtroom scenes a rare verisimilitude, but what really impresses here is Diop’s mise-en-scène.
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The film, which daringly asks viewers to sympathize with a character who has committed a monstrous crime, is based on the true story of Fabienne Kamou, who was arrested for infanticide in 2013 and whose 2016 trial Diop attended. Pregnant Rama (Kayije Kagame), a successful novelist and professor of literature, attends the trial of-and becomes obsessed with-Laurence (Guslagie Malanga), a college student of limited means who stands accused of murder after abandoning her baby on a beach at night. Gene Siskel Film Center – See Venue website for showtimesĪcclaimed documentary filmmaker Alice Diop (whose non-fiction work I am not familiar with) made her narrative feature debut with this complex and beautiful character study about two women of Senegalese descent living in contemporary France. It plays in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center through Thursday, 1/19: Alice Diop’s SAINT OMER (France)
White Noise is distributed by Netflix.I reviewed Alice Diop’s SAINT OMER for. White Noise will be screened Wednesday August 31 st, in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia), on the opening night of the 79 th Venice Film Festival. This is a place that loves cinema so much, and it’s a thrill and a privilege to join the amazing films and filmmakers that have premiered here." Noah Baumbach said: "It is a truly wonderful thing to return to the Venice Film Festival, and an incredible honor to have White Noise play as the opening night film. The result is a film that examines our obsessions, doubts, and fears as captured in the 1980’s, yet with very clear references to contemporary reality.” Adapted from the great Don DeLillo novel, Baumbach has made an original, ambitious and compelling piece of art which plays with measure on multiple registers: dramatic, ironic, satirical. It was worth waiting for the certainty that the film was finished to have the pleasure to make this announcement. This is Baumbach’s return to the Lido he premiered Marriage Story at the festival in 2019.Īlberto Barbera said: “It is a great honor to open the 79. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger is the O pening F ilm, in Competition, of the 79 th Venice International Film Festival within La Biennale di Venezia, directed by Alberto Barbera (31 August > 10 September 2022).
White Noise, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L.
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