Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 249: Sun Sep 16

Edvard Munch (Watkins, 1974): Close-Up Cinema, 6pm



This screening is part of the Peter Watkins season at Close-Up Cinema, and you can find all the details of the films being shown via the link here.

Time Out review:
Peter Watkins' biography of the formative years of the pioneer Expressionist easily vindicates its running time. As Munch moves through his youth, quiet and alienated, we realise that he too was eluded by any lasting intimacy: a long, abortive affair with an older woman joins the ubiquitous ghosts of a childhood scarred by sickness and death. In the end it's the paintings which do Munch's talking for him, both directly and through the prefigurations and echoes in the film's set pieces, a fuzzed, mutely anguished procession of half-profiles and silently helpless groups with numb, naked eyes. It's a remarkable film.
Giovanni Dadomo


Here (and above) is a clip from the film.

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