Comparison between Jean Eustache's Les Mauvaises Fréquentations (1964) and Abel Ferrara's Welcome to New York (2014). The camera in each of these scenes lingers momentarily on a character outside of the narrative - their inclusion is a crucial moral statement and offers a striking image.
In Eustache's film, the men have just run into a cafe and are looking over the stolen belongings of a woman they failed to seduce elsewhere moments ago. Ferrara's film, inspired by the events of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's attempted rape of a hotel maid, follows Mr. Devereaux as he navigates systems that serve to protect rich white men. The compassionate eye of both of these directors considers the wider implications of the central character's actions in an efficient few seconds.
00:00 Les Mauvaises Fréquentations
02:13 Welcome to New York
04:18 Together
15 окт 2024
