Let the Sunshine In
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1h 35m
Directed by Claire Denis | 95 mins | 2017
Claire Denis’s voluptuous riff on "A Lover’s Discourse" by Roland Barthes stars a characteristically radiant Juliette Binoche as Isabelle, a divorced artist in search of swoon-inducing, capital-L love. What she finds, via a series of comedy-laced liaisons with men spread across a spectrum of emotional availability, is something other than that—but cast in cinematographer Agnès Godard’s golden light, Isabelle’s persistent faith in her endeavor is not heartbreaking, but galvanizing.
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Directed by Mary Stephen | 5 mins | 1973
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The Great Canadian Puberty Rite
Directed by Mary Stephen | 20 mins | 1974
This lyrical film diary chronicles a westward “pilgrimage” Stephen made, together with her partner John Cressey, at the end of her studies in Montreal, in the summer of ’74. As she contemplates the impetus for the journey, her camera surveys a variety of ... -
The Memory of Water
Directed by Mary Stephen | 20 mins | 2018
Breezy but poignant, this beautifully constructed short contemplates the hardiness of cultural roots from two vantage points: the first, belonging to a filmmaker who returns to her native Hong Kong after decades abroad in order to teach; the second, belon...
