This film is a testimony, a slice of life. It shows striptease from the inside out with sincerity and poetry.
In an old Taipei movie theatre, on the eve of a “temporary closing”, King Hu’s 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn plays to a dwindling audience.
In this documentary Thom Anderson explores the tangled relationship between the movies and their fabled hometown, Los Angeles. Entirely from the perspective of the films themselves.
Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Philippino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy. Three statues, three children; an imaginary conversation.
“We blijven het verlangen koesteren om ons meester te maken van het lichaam van een film. Zelden zal de foute stelling die cinema als fotografie in beweging beschouwt zo juist geweest zijn.