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rouxpiacentini's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
kylefwill's review against another edition
4.0
"My mother finds it weird that I am interested in this film. Nothing happens, she says, clearing away our dinner tray. Then, from the kitchen: I wonder why you have a taste for sad things." (35)
kylefwill's review against another edition
5.0
I reviewed the triptych for Full Stop! https://www.full-stop.net/2020/09/14/reviews/kyle-williams/exposition-the-white-dress-nathalie-leger/
miikov's review against another edition
5.0
"To sum up. A woman is pretending to be another, in a role she wrote herself, based on another (this, we find out later), playing something other than a straightforward role, playing not herself but a projection of herself onto another, played by her but based on another."
Damn, I took my sweet time with these 123pgs.
To my embarrassment, I have seen many Godard movies but little else of the 1960s-70s art house films. While I have not seen Wanda (and honestly I am happy I did not, I love seeing the film through the author's lens; Nathalie Léger does a fantastic job describing the film's key aspects), elements of the film reminded me of Godard's own Vivre Sa Vie. Yet, Léger's book (essay? nonfiction? I feel she deserves her own genre like Capote's True Crime Fiction, Art Essay Fiction? idk) mediates between Loden's life and her lone directorial work, collapsing the space for readers to find the miracle that Duras described. Whereas Vivre Sa Vie captivated, but ultimately left me empty, Léger's account of Barbara Loden's Wanda deeply satisfied my need to understand the woman who abandons everything. Léger digs deeper, interrogating her research and creating her own portrait of women in art and as the art we make.
Damn, I took my sweet time with these 123pgs.
To my embarrassment, I have seen many Godard movies but little else of the 1960s-70s art house films. While I have not seen Wanda (and honestly I am happy I did not, I love seeing the film through the author's lens; Nathalie Léger does a fantastic job describing the film's key aspects), elements of the film reminded me of Godard's own Vivre Sa Vie. Yet, Léger's book (essay? nonfiction? I feel she deserves her own genre like Capote's True Crime Fiction, Art Essay Fiction? idk) mediates between Loden's life and her lone directorial work, collapsing the space for readers to find the miracle that Duras described. Whereas Vivre Sa Vie captivated, but ultimately left me empty, Léger's account of Barbara Loden's Wanda deeply satisfied my need to understand the woman who abandons everything. Léger digs deeper, interrogating her research and creating her own portrait of women in art and as the art we make.
meghan_is_reading's review against another edition
A biography, admitting how little we can know. Still obsessed with the spaces where these other events happened, and the roles that seems to describe Barbara Loden.