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From the indistinct to the most distinguished, one comes to the third and inevitable arc: the civilizations. With it, the dissolves return, the possibility of producing new senses and readings. The chaos mediated by the artist becomes history again. At one point in Film Socialism, a voice over says that Hollywood was called the Mecca of cinema because it manage that a large number of people to turn at once, at a single place: the screen. The movie, however, is the gaze of an individual. Cinema – or art – remains the possibility of the subject’s ultimate resistance, even if this subject comes to the shards of those who print a world flying before their eyes (or, like in a thought-film, inside their heads) – Fabio Andrade on Film Socialism
The actresses’ table, beyond all thematic construction, is itself a way of saying that the cinema is a historical monument as large as the ruins of Pompeii or the Parthenon, Naples or Constantinople. Several layers of history are seen in an Oliveira film, and the passage between them is what makes up all the beauty that never ceases to amaze us, as history and the human in general amaze us. – Ruy Gardnier on A Talking Picture
Jean-Luc Godard shot his Film Socialism in 2008 at the Costa Concordia cruise chip at the Mediterranean sea. The shoot was documented by Godard’s nephew Paul Grivas who is a mostly a photographer. In January 2012, the Costa Concordia collided with rock and that luxury symbol that was explored by the Swiss filmmaker sunk. Ten years later, Grivas finished Film Catastrophe an ostensible making-off whose images are heavily informed by the subsequente sinking of the ship.
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