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Set against the real-life contemporary art world, Female Human Animal is a psycho-thriller about a creative woman disenchanted with what modern life has to offer her.
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19 Apr 2018
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Unpopular opinion: I think the VHS look is the best thing about the film.
Otherwise, it seemed like the film was made by this dude: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo
Also, I have to say that Leonora Carrington's Self-portrait (Inn of the dawn horse) from 1937-1938 is the most badass self-portrait I've ever seen.
She is seated on the throne, hair is flowing, there's that hyeena-horse hybrid and horses are flying everywhere.
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Early on in Josh Appignanesi's fourth feature, Chloe Aridjis declares that she doesn't like the times she lives in, and would prefer to be in some other era. She's playing a character with her own name who is currently putting on an exhibition of the paintings of Leonora Carrington, as Aridjis herself did in 2015. Despite this, there is little chance of confusing Female Human Animal with a documentary. Aridjis is haunted by the strange, eerie compositions and unclassifiable animals in Carrington's paintings, as well as a mysterious stalker, a predatory boss (Angus Wright) and her own father, whose baleful, sagging jaw recalls the Pale Man from Pan's Labyrinth.
If there was ever a film that tried to put Carrington's…
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A movie that is SOV in 2018 (and TRUE SOV, not digital crap) is always gonna ingratiate itself with me (aside from one scene that looked like it was HD for some reason). my only criticism is that a tripod could have been used since the handheld shots play TOO much into a home movie/underground amateur look. aside from that small criticism, the cinematography is beautiful with appignanesi taking full advantage of the dreamy medium.
anyways, this is a sort of hybrid docu-thriller, contextualizing itself in the work of surrealist artist leonora carrington and starring novelist chloe aridjis as an anxious, restless museum curator feeling suffocated by patriarchy and the art world. there are some genuinely tense moments in here,…
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Ominosamente agradable. Arte, teoría y enajenación; siempre en reversa, siempre adelantándose.
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If you’re gonna do style over substance don’t make the style so ugly and the substance so boring
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Fascinatingly lo-fi film shot on videotape (so rare, truly feels 90s retro) is interesting for the first half but loses steam. Weird obsession with plastic bags is never explained (but does lead one Letterboxd user, JasiParkko, to make a hilarious American Beauty comparison) but Carrington's art is stunning. Annoyed that someone stole my idea of paying homage to Three Lives Of Thomasina's bonkers cat dream sequence.
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Loved this so much, has that amazing thrown-toghetherness meets insane attention to detail and imagination that something like Computer Chess has. Some really honest to god strange moments as well as being really funny, especially in terms of the acting which was all spot on in terms of not being good (but not so much as to give it any sense of irony or anything).
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It feels like a smart, disaffected person getting lost inside her own head, getting more into her own fixations, absurdities, and traumas than in interacting with the people around her. Bits of wisdom from Leonora Carrington become the signposts of Chloe's evolving mindset, but not in as direct a way as you might expect. As befits a surrealist painter, this is about feeling Chloe's rich internal life more than anything else.
The actress's performance is full of great small realistic restless habits. Chloe is someone who, for example, will make an authoritative statement and then nod and smile nervously, as if to say, "There, I've finished saying that. Stop looking at me now." She also laughs at guests' and coworkers'…
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Another running series that MUBI has been focusing on is lo-fi films, with Female Human Animal being my favorite out of the couple that I have watched so far. It took a while to get into, but once it got going, the film truly started to take off. It was a very interesting decision to film this film the way they did, since it didn't seem to pair with the story like it did with Stinking Heaven, but overall didn't seem to detract from the film as well. It's certainly a thriller, but not by most people's terms, which I found out by traveling over to IMDb to see what they had to say about it. It's an interesting film…
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