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Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

Girl Reading a Letter by an Open Window

Original Title: Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre

Status

Released

Release

1983

Runtime

46m

Storyline

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Peter Nestler, the greatest working in Europe. With this newly restored print there is also a possibility to discover the relationship between Rousseau's art of filming and Jan Vermeer's famous painting. As Prosper Hillairet wrote in 1988, four years after Rousseau had finished Jeune femme ... (for the first time as we know today): «Without adopting the usual systematic spirit and form of cinéma structurel, Rousseau presents us with simple images and leaves it at that. Keeps the image in hand. A minimalist and ascetic expression of cinema: a shot that lasts.»

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
46m
Jan 1, 1983
Languages
No Language
Production Countries
France

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