Photographs abound in Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t. They pop up with the opening credits and predate the encounter between 17-year-old Pauline (Valérie Mairesse) and photographer Jérôme (Robert Dadiès); they go on to document the friendship between the teenage girl and Jérôme’s girlfriend, 22-year-old Suzanne (Thérèse Liotard); and they resurface at the end, when the two girls meet again for a summer holiday of Bergman-esque peace after years spent apart. They are, for the most part, portraits of women, sometimes naked but always unmistakably black and white—colors which Charles Van Damme’s cinematography blends into a fitting, melancholic blue. “These women are sad,” remarks Pauline as she steps foot into Jérôme’s studio. It is a point she brings up again when he later asks her to strip and pose for him, only to give up and complain she’s “refusing to be real.
- 6/25/2018
- MUBI
Following their June acquisition of Senegalese filmmaker Khady Syllla's The Silent Monologue/Le Monologue de la Muette, co-directed with Charlie Van Damme (a 45-minute analysis of the life of maids in Senegal), comes the annnouncement that ArtMattan Productions has also now added Malawian filmmaker C. Shemu Joyah's debut feature, Seasons of a Life, to their already impressive library of films from continental Africa (photo above is of the filmmaker). The synopsis for Seasons of a Life, which screened at several international film festivals including the Zanzibar International Film Festival where it won the Chairman's Award and...
- 8/3/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
ArtMattan Productions is pleased to announce the acquisition of Khady Syllla's The Silent Monologue/Le Monologue de la Muette, co-directed with Charlie Van Damme, a 45-minute visual and poetic analysis of the life of maids in Senegal reminiscent of Ousmane Sembene's classic Black Girl. The Silent Monologue follows the life of Amy who, at a very young age, is sent to Dakar to work for a Senegalese family. In Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene zoomed on the life of a Senegalese maid working for a white French family in Senegal and France. Khady Sylla does not leave her native Senegal and the team behind the camera gives us a very incisive analysis of an African society, its casts and...
- 6/25/2012
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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