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Bookmark this pageBlind Spot (1980)
Director: Claudia von Alemann
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From Time Out Film Guide
Flora Tristan was a 19th century utopian socialist feminist, notorious in her day, now largely forgotten. A young historian (Pauly) leaves husband and child to seek traces of Tristan in contemporary Lyons. Disillusioned with the records-and-monuments methods of historians, she roams the streets recording sounds Tristan may have heard. A film about the impossibility of knowing the past; the camera looks and looks but only yields implacably closed images. Sound's the thing, and in the final, long-held shot of the woman ecstatically playing her violin, the film's complex and compelling themes come together.Author: JR
Cast & crew
Director: Claudia von Alemann
Cast: Rebecca Pauly, Jean Badin, Denise Péron, Sarah Stern, Maurice Garden, Pierre-Emile Legrand full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 111 mins
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