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Laurie AndersonScénario:
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Laurie AndersonActeurs·trices:
Bob Currie, Sasha Grossman, Kurt Gutenbrunner, Willy Friedman, Evelyn Fleder, Jenni Muldaur, Julian Schnabel, Dustin Guy Defa, Jason Berg (plus)Résumés(1)
L'amour, la mort... et sa chienne Lolabelle : tout au long d'une carrière d'une densité rare, Laurie Anderson a souvent mêlé récit autobiographique et pensée philosophique. Heart of a dog s'inscrit dans la droite lignée d'un style éminemment personnel, dans lequel l'intime, qu'il soit anecdotique ou profond, voire douloureux, suscite une réflexion plus large sur le monde tel qu'il va. À partir de sa relation presque fusionnelle avec sa chienne Lolabelle, un "rat terrier" joueur et protecteur, la chanteuse et artiste multimédia compose un essai visuellement inventif où elle tisse souvenirs, fables et méditation poétique. Posée, émouvante, sa voix constitue le fil directeur d'un "film-somme" aux techniques multiples : séquences d'animation, films en super-huit de son enfance, vidéos retouchées ou extraits de textes très rythmés. (Arte)
(plus)Critiques (3)
Subjectively: unbearable. Objectively: anachronistic. If you think your dog is an artist, that it talks and you'd have preferred to take him out of your womb as a baby (and are uncomfortable with personal data tracking to boot), I give you permission to hate me.
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The internet is a movie! The castration of Eastern European philosophy into one-sentence lessons, shots of children and nature through all sorts of primitive filters, free association, context-free dictated trivia culled from some kind of "20 Things You Didn't Know About the World Around Us"; there are even mobile phone videos of a dog playing the piano. This is exactly how I imagine the FB wall of a wealthy housewife somewhere in the suburbs after her adult children have left home. Yet the whole monologue is told in a creepily affected Štěpánka Haničincová style. I'm pretty convinced that if someone sat me down in a coffee shop across from Laurie Anderson, I'd slit my wrists from boredom within five minutes.
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I don't like associative films because even though they have an idea within them - or they could have one - the way they are presented bothers me so much that I don't actually have any proper experience from the film itself because I don't enjoy watching it. Moreover, I'm not sure if the associations here are actually a bit self-serving. At least in places they sound strange.
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