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elise_ikl's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
3.5
Une lecture intéressante, comme toujours avec les BD de ces deux auteur.rice.s. Je ne connaissais pas du tout Alice Guy donc j'ai appris beaucoup à la lecture de cette BD : c'est une femme assez fascinante et le fait que son travail et sa contribution au cinéma aient été oubliés est juste scandaleux.
Content Warnings
Minor: Death and Suicide
lineb's review against another edition
3.0
L'histoire d'Alice Guy est passionnante. Mais la BD est terriblement plate, suite de scènettes aux dialogues poussifs.
tschmitty's review against another edition
4.0
I like to get a book or two about Women's History during March but often find myself constrained by time. This lovely graphic nicely filled the bill. I knew nothing about this pioneer of film and learned a lot.
pscamp01's review against another edition
5.0
Alice Guy is often remembered as the first female movie director, but that description rather short changes her accomplishments. She was actually one of the first major innovators of moving images, changing it from a mere recorder of moving images to an actual art form. While she is not completely forgotten (for instance, my local movie theater has a mural of her on one of its walls), she is still little remembered. Hopefully, this exquisite graphic novel will help change that. More than just a story of her life and accomplishments, it is also a fascinating look at the early movie business in France, with all of its rivalries and technological advances. The art in the book is fantastic and the writing is clever and clear (although the dialog does get bogged down in exposition occasionally). In the back of the book there is a Guy filmography and mini-biographies of characters in the book, many of whom are equally obscure as Guy (in America anyway.) These two bonuses ought to make the book a welcome addition to academic libraries at any university with a film studies program.
chasehorizon's review against another edition
3.0
Alice Guy-Blaché was perhaps the first director of a narrative fiction film, and most certainly the first female director. Her place in the film canon has largely been snubbed by film historians, but works like this fictionalized tale of her life, as well as documentaries and scholarly research, renew her legacy with the flowers she deserves. I enjoyed how popular figures of the time interacted with her, like Gustave Eiffel and Georges Méliès, and how they wrote the dialogue with more modern liberties to get thematic truths across. The art-style was pretty too; the recreations of her films as sketches were especially cool. I found the biographies of each of the characters at the end to be very informative, and I was interested to read the authors discuss how they got involved in Alice's life and legacy. Although it leaves me wanting to read Guy's memoirs to see her point of view of things, this retelling serves as a great gateway to bring awareness to her work and get people interested in it!
monsieur_tunin's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
3.5
alexmatzkeit's review against another edition
3.0
Ein Biopic als Comic. Lehrreich und streckenweise unterhaltsam. Aber auch recht steif und bemüht, und mit einigen der furchtbarsten Expositionsszenen, die ich je gelesen habe, an die Parodie grenzend („Wie Sie ja wissen, aber ich gerne noch einmal wiederhole …“). Größtes Plus sind Catels Bilder von Straßen, Landschaften und Gebäuden, die das Buch strukturieren und einen guten Eindruck vom Verstreichen der Zeit vermitteln.