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WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?
Onde Jaz o Teu Sorriso?
Portugal, France | 2001 | 104 min
Pedro Costa filming Jean-Marie Straub and Danielle Huillet at work on the editing of their film Sicily!. We watch them discussing, we share the practice of a painstaking work on the images, movement, duration of the shots. While the couple of directors is sitting at the editing table, what unravels before our eyes is a powerful idea of mise-en-scène based on the rigour of the decisions, but is also marked by a profound love for film, as it emerges from their conversations. An editing cut, or a pause, are not technical choices: they become an opportunity to discuss power and form in the seventh art. In the semi-darkness – a kind of black that lets us into another world – of the editing or projection room, a theoretical thought takes shape and becomes a wonderful portrait of two unique directors in film history, observed with as much love and respect by the gaze of their Portuguese fellow. (d.d.)