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A Farewell to Yesterday's Cinema
cacb3995 - wrote on 03/24/2018
Based on a short story written by Kluge himself, the film tells the story of Anita (Alexandra Kluge, the director’s sister), a young woman from East Germany, who migrates to West Germany and struggles to find ends meet. She often runs into trouble with the law, jumps from one job to another, tries to find an education and falls in love more than a few times. Without a concrete dramatic thread to follow other than Anita’s survival efforts, the film defies conventional narrative and even aesthetics, well establishing Kluge’s vision to what a new german cinema should look like.
One of the most interesting aspects of the film is how, as I said, it defies traditional film aesthetics. It employs elliptical and experimental editing, resulting in a pace that at times might look a bit …
