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Lisandro Alonso is in Seattle with all four of his features. My essay for The Stranger here http://tinyurl.com/yc9wlkl 11/12/2009 |
ARGENTINE CINEMA: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD—A Few Evening Class Questions For Lisandro Alonso
The Evening Class —
... In his write-up for The Stranger, Sean Axmaker emphasized: "In addition to putting together this Seattle series, Northwest Film Forum has taken up ...
AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD: A Few Questions For Lisandro Alonso
Twitch —
... In his write-up for The Stranger, Sean Axmaker emphasized: "In addition to putting together this Seattle series, Northwest Film Forum has taken up ...
ARGENTINE CINEMA: AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD—Lisandro Alonso On La Libertad
The Evening Class —
... In the film's final "quietly confrontational" sequence, Misael munches on roasted armadillo and then stares directly at the audience "as if"—Ed Gonzalez suggests at Slant—"daring us to question or challenge the integrity of his way of life", or what Sean Axmaker describes as "the integrity of the quotidian." "As if" becomes a convenient way to extrapolate Alonso's otherwise notoriously withheld motivations. Alonso admits that by encouraging Misael to look directly into the camera, he deconstructed documentary expectations and created a direct relationship ...
