Varda’s work here is under-appreciated—a layered and surreal collision of imaginary and abstract ideas about a writer’s creative process, and one might even say a tonal antecedent to the modern pictures of Yorgos Lanthimos.
Tag / 1966
Wings (1966)
Shepitko shows why she was such a promising filmmaker in this charming character study that brings social reality and flights of fancy together through artful naturalism.
Here Is Your Life (1966)
Jan Troell’s naturalistic if poetic debut feature may have been well-regarded in Swedish cinema, but it is difficult to be absorbed by a work that is too meandering and elliptical for its own good.
