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Bookmark this pageThe Silent Cry (1977)
Director: Stephen Dwoskin
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From Time Out Film Guide
The title recalls Münch, but the film could almost be a radicalised Resnais project. Dwoskin traces the history of a woman dominated from childhood by male definition of her 'place'. She's trapped within a series of reflections of her image, which the film explores in an obsessive forward-and-backward movement that ranges over memory, fantasy, and 'the presentation of self in everyday life'. Although highly fragmented, this constructs a fuller narrative than any of Dwoskin's earlier features; but the narrative line is constantly disorganised by the disturbance of childhood memory and speech. An impressive renewal of the concerns that had been preoccupiying Dwoskin for nearly a decade.Author: IC
Cast & crew
Director: Stephen Dwoskin
Producer: Stephen Dwoskin
Cast: Ernst Brightmore, Bobby Gill, Harry Waistnage, Mary Rose, Beatrice Cordua full cast
Duration: 98 mins
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