La Femme Qui Se Poudre (1972)
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Uploaded by rocketsfalls on Jan 5, 2011
Also known as "The Woman Who Powders Herself".
Something of a hybrid between Jean Cocteau and Jan Svankmajer in its gothic expressionism and artful grotesquerie crossed with the metric precision of Kurt Kren's more clinical materialaktion films that experiment with the plasticity of surfaces (most notably, in the deformed figures that recall the disfiguration and self-mutilation of Kren's short film, 10/65: Selbstverstümmelung), Bokanowski's earliest film, La Femme qui se poudre (The Woman Who Powders Herself) is, as the title implies, an evocation of concealment and unmasking, where the mundane act of a Victorian-era woman's ritualistic application of cosmetic powder seemingly opens the window - or perhaps, Pandora's Box - into underlying human anxieties of physical beauty, youth, desirability, and objectification. Reflecting the superficiality of societal notions of beauty through the alienness of landscape and the ephemeral riddle of true identity through epic, soul-searching journeys and faceless phantoms that emerge from thin air before vanishing from view, the terrifying images break apart and eventually disintegrate into irresolvable fragments of haunted memory within the course of the increasingly abstract film, as the waking dream descends ever further into the realm of nightmare and the deepest recesses of the subconscious, unraveling the veil of human vanity to reveal amorphous shadows cast by empty souls.
Directed by Patrick Bokanowski.
Credited cast: Jean-Jacques Choul, Jacques Delbosc d'Auzon, Claus-Dieter Reents, Nadine Roussial.
Original Music by Michèle Bokanowski.
Film Editing by Patrick Bokanowski & Renée Richard.
Other crew: Christian Daninos .... collaborator.
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I find this difficult to fap to.
maddpiklz48 1 month ago 4
Very intriguing piece of work.I bet Mr Edmund Elias Merhige is a big fan of this.
goeatroadkill 1 year ago 3