Capital Celluloid 2020 – Day 55: Mon Feb 24

Inter-View & Flora (Hausner, 1995): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 8.50pm


These 35mm presentations, which are also being screened on February 22nd (details here), are part of the Jessica Hausner season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.

BFI introduction:
FLORA is a sympathetic, often darkly funny and wholly unsentimental look at the trials and tribulations of early adulthood, as experienced by a young woman, while INTER-VIEW is Hausner’s most fragmented and impressionistic film, this featurette alternates between two protagonists: a writer apparently conducting research by interviewing strangers about their professional and personal lives, and a quiet graduate looking for a job (hopefully involving flowers – shades of Little Joe?). Like its predecessor, Inter-View offers an early instance of the writer-director’s enduring penchant for scenes involving dance.

Here (and above) is Jessica Hausner being interviewed on images and meaning in cinema.

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