Author: Madyson DeJausserand
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FROM VARDA’S PARIS TO DE PALMA’S CALIFORNIA: THE CAMERA’S CONTEMPT FOR THE AUDIENCE
Uncomfortable long takes, jarringly rapid scene changes, nearly incomprehensible and typically improvised dialogue, complex illusionary elements, and limited narrative explanation: these are the stimulating formal aesthetics of a film that conjoin to create discomfort and activity in its audience. Typically, mainstream films tend to stay away from these formal elements, in order to…