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It Was Still Her Face

Christoph Girardet | Germany | 2017 | 8' | | IFFR 2018

Portraits of women. And men, who are spellbound by them. The painted portraits – a recurring motif of film noir and European postwar cinema – are revenants, omens of absence, metaphors for loss and death, objects of desire and fixation, which mesmerise the viewer. (Light Cone)

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Film details

Country of production
Germany
Year
2017
Festival edition
IFFR 2018
Length
8"
Medium/Format
DCP

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