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CHANGE NOTHING
Ne change rien
France, Portugal | 2009 | 103 min
Immersed in the darkness of particular spaces – a stage, a rehearsal studio – Jeanne Balibar is rehearsing the songs for her new album, exhibiting herself, taking lessons in opera singing, performing in a show. In every shot, her face emerges partially from the black space that seems to swallow her up, absorb her, perhaps forever. The movement of the film lies precisely in this tension: an open rapport between a body and a face that attempt, search, experiment; and an external space that at the same time contains that body, letting out glimpses of its intensity. Pedro Costa’s film camera lingers on the actress’ face, on the spaces she moves about, capturing expressions, hidden thoughts, sorrows, and concentration. All notes, all vocal exercises, all arrangements become concrete, material, while the vision becomes hypnotic and magnetic. A film dealing not only with music, but also with the duration of creation, the work of time, of black, of non-seen, the very fabric of cinema. (d.d.)
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