The Machine that Kills Bad People (Rossellini, 1952): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm
This presentation, part of the BFI Southbank's Italian Neorealism season, is also being screened on June 5th, 19th and 27th. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
This rarely shown early film by Roberto Rossellini (1948), one of his
few comedies, anticipates with remarkable prescience the conceits of
Godard and others about photography in the 60s. A professional
small-town photographer finds that he has the power to kill his subjects
by taking their picture, turning them into statues of themselves.
Rossellini left this project before it was finished, and it was edited
and released a few years later without his approval—but it still comes
across as a remarkably suggestive fable.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is an extract.
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