Three Popular Films By Jean-Pierre Gorin - Criterion Collection

Jean-Pierre Gorin, widely known for his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard in the Dziga Vertov Group (including Tout va bien), established his personal voice with this trio of fascinating, nontraditional documentaries. Made in Southern California after the filmmaker relocated there in the mid-seventies, Poto and Cabengo, Routine Pleasures, and My Crasy Life illuminate hidden corners of our culture. With these films, Gorin revealed himself as a major chronicler of American life at its most hauntingly enigmatic.

Poto And Cabengo:

The story of twin sisters who were thought to have developed a private language inspires Gorin to investigate family, communication, and social environment.

Routine Pleasures:

Gorin turns his camera on some model train enthusiasts and the work of critic and painter Manny Farber in this bracing meditation on the past.

My Crasy Life:

Documentary and scripted drama meet in this intense, introspective, and expectation-shredding treatment of the lives of Samoan street gang members in Long Beach.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 4 Mars, 2012