Story of My Death (Serra, 2013): ICA Cinema, 6.20pm
This film is part of an Albert Serra season.
ICA introduction:
Winner of the prestigious Golden Leopard award for Best Film at the
Locarno International Film Festival in 2013, Story of My Death is a
baroque reflection on pleasure and erotic desire dramatised from an
imagined meeting between the ageing Casanova and Count Dracula. Serra’s
deliciously eccentric film mines history to blend the mythical with the
everyday, charting the transition from the Age of Enlightenment to that
of Romanticism – marking a clash between an eighteenth century of
rationalism and sensuality against a nineteenth century founded upon
repression and violence.
New Yorker review:
In Story of My Death, Serra mines a clever conceit for its vast
historical reach; his frozen images seem to bend and break with spidery
cracks under the tension of their inner conflict. His fusion of
pre-modern bodies and minds plays like a living archeology of forces
that are still potent and still repressed—perhaps now even more than
ever. I won’t spoil the resolution of the quiet but vast Kulturkampf_ _at the heart of the movie, but its muted whimsy and dark mystery reaches deeply and chillingly into modern times.
Richard Brody
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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