Stills from the webcam sequences in The Girl on the Train (Andre Techine, 2009)
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2 comments:
looks like it has a Godard influence in it [text-on-frame aesthetics].
In the stills, definitely -- but in motion, it looks like nothing else I've ever seen. The texts in question are the ones they are typing on their computers as they watch each other via webcam. The whole scene makes the Internet look like a dream.
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