1980's documentary about the Swiss-German-French-Mexican surrealist
Sound and image both lyrical, bit slight disjunctions in both
sound as the doubled through a narrator, and mix of perspectives
use of sound against the image, for wry content/ humour. A few good dialectical moments
generally pretty straightforward, slow montage, a few interesting juxtapositions of banal urban mundanity with the (generally clearly and well shown) art
use of video and backlighting also give high contrast and 'holes' in the image
as far as content, really sets on to think about surrealism
lack of political content; portrays her as a bit of an ingenue, with rather all over the place psychoanalytic influences
condemns herself with her essentialist readings, becomes out of date
shows the inability for surrealism to any longer have a critical message
yet her art is fine, and is historically critical; a crucial feminist work
work seems surprisingly good, always better than the words would seem...
a great artist, and an interesting enough film, if a little pedestrian
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