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Bright Nights
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Bright Nights

Nov 29, 1990
1h 0m
★ 7.0

Overview

In an experimentally compiled film review, Danielle Jaeggi, Paule Baillargeon and Claudia von Alemann reflect on their work as filmmakers and life as mothers. Just as the title is based on Michel Leiris' book of poems Bright Nights and Many a Dark Day, the film has its own poetry, which is also evident in shots of everyday activities, such as hands washing dishes. “Just the hair or the relationship of the hands to each other or gestures, and then words come in between and film clips that we talk about, and we were amazed to find that the women we portray in the films always have a lot of trouble with theirs Identity, their search for something, for lost people or lost things. “They are usually looking for something that has been lost, forgotten or gone,” said Claudia von Alemann in the 1992 interview conducted by Renate Fischetti, A Pioneer of Female Film Language. An essay about desire, doubt, contradictions. (fib)

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Alemann Filmproduktion

Cast

Claudia von Alemann

Claudia von Alemann

Madeleine Bernstorff

Madeleine Bernstorff

Danielle Jaeggi

Danielle Jaeggi

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