TOWARDS MATHILDE [DVD] as well as the moral

as well as the moral demands of obedience and sacrifice within the German bourgeois family

editor of “Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet” (Austrian Film Museum / FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen

• Interview with cinematographer Emmanuel Machuel

a preoccupied doctor working in a small clinic in the rain-drenched city of Kaili

the spirit world

TOWARDS MATHILDE [DVD] as well as the moralEmphasizing raw physicality, craft, and in the moment fervor over exposition, Towards Mathilde, from filmmaker Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum, Let the Sunshine In), is a documentary portrait par excellence. At its center is Mathilde Monnier, whose title as head of the Montpellier National Centre for Choreography sends her and an elite group of dancers through numerous, demanding performance pieces, each captured on sumptuous 8 and 16mm