L’Opéra mouffe (Diary of a Pregnant Woman)
Posted by martinteller on November 29, 2008
In this short, Varda take some candid street scenes, mixes in a few staged scenes, and organizes the images to a selection of brief Kurt Weill-influenced songs. It’s less interesting than it sounds. The best part is right in the beginning, where we see Varda’s own very pregnant bare stomach and then cut to a giant pumpkin being sliced open. The rest of it is rather unengaging, and feels kind of like something Maya Deren might do if she didn’t have a huge stick up her ass. Rating: 6
