Nina Menkes: Cinema as Sorcery at UCLA

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This is familiar thematic territory for Menkes, with a twist. At his most desperate, the never-named Israeli man asks for a sign, and gets it; Menkes' women, however, seem to have given up hope of being heard. In Menkes' previous films, men are at best a physical burden, and at worst a physical threat, to a female protagonist. That's still true in Dissolution, but this time Menkes explores the behavior and psyche of the man after he commits the act of violence. It's not that Dissolution has a different worldview — it's the same fatalistic feminism, but this time seen, as things so often are in Menkes' movies, from the flip side.  

NINA MENKES: CINEMA AS SORCERY | UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Billy Wilder Theater | Feb. 18-March 7 | cinema.ucla.edu

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