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Up Down Fragile [VHS]

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This film was for me the coldest bucket of water I ever recieved in my face. Besides being a perfect performance in the classical and avant-garde point of view, it reaches a point hardly ever achieved in the story of cinema. Why? Because its intentions go beyond the screen and awakes the spectator thanks to the freshness of all its components (acting & dancing improvisation, subtle rythmic script, beautiful chansons, direction). The effect I mean is that the sense of real life (the unexpected, the fantasy, the inner trivial thoughts) created in this film was scarecely shared by other ones. Although it well fits in the Nouvelle Vague, where Rivette I consider to be one highest exponents (or the highest): to search endlessly the power of the camera to manipulate life or understand it. Rivette, in my opinion, created an antithesis of the hollywood film: break the stereotypes that blind us. He proposes us to see life as if is, half thoughts and fantasy and half the unexpected of the other one, tho whom we dedicate our life.