Mariano Llinás' La Flor is showing July and August on Mubi in the United States.1.In the Argentinian film La Flor (2018), a certain kind of sight and a certain kind of sound predominate—spread right across its roughly thirteen-and-a-half hours and six major parts.First, the sight. There are various directors in cinema history known for their stubborn insistence on using a particular camera lens which becomes their veritable stylistic signature: for example, the 25-millimeter lens for deep focus effect in Jacques Rivette; or the split diopter in Brian De Palma. Mariano Llinás takes the exactly opposite position in La Flor: his lens-weapon of choice is a defiantly shallow one, plunging great expanses of any frame into blur. Sometimes there’s a relatively traditional bit of focus-pulling back and forth between two points in a scene. Far more often, it’s a mise en scène based on characters slowly...
- 7/17/2020
- MUBI
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