settima

salt

Touha zvaná Anada [Desire Called Anad / Adrift] (Elmar Klos + Ján Kadár, 1968/1971)

Jan

21

salt

Touha zvaná Anada (1968/1971)

Semi-off screen, an older man with a moustache at a dinner table – many plates, glasses, and foods – reaches for a bowl of salt. DP: Vladimír Novotný.

#FilmDinner #salt #soup #ElmarKlos #JánKadár #LájosZilahy #RadeMarković #MilenaDravić #PaulaPritchett #VladimírNovotný #ZdeněkLiška #VladimírNovotný #drama #fantasy #BookAdaptation #1960s #1970s #Czechoslovakia ★★★★½

Araya [Araya l'enfer du sel] (Margot Benacerraf, 1959)

Jul

5

Venezuela Independence Day

Araya (1959)

Workers in front of pyramid-shaped piles of salt. DP: Giuseppe Nisoli.

“Above all… don’t cut a single image.”

– Jean Renoir in a letter to Margot Benacerraf

#Bales2023FilmChallenge #VenezuelaIndependenceDay #MargotBenacerraf #GiuseppeNisoli #GuyBernard #GiuseppeNisoli #salt #documentary #poetry #Venezuela #France #1950s