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Soft Fiction

1979 · 55 min

An intimate, lyrical documentary that drifts between confession and dream, asking you to lean in and listen closely.

Directed by
Chick Strand
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Beverle Houston, Karen Amend, Melissa Lou Beal
Overview
Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality. It combines the documentary approach with a sensuous lyrical expressionism. Strand focuses her camera on people talking about their own experience, capturing subtle nuances in facial expressions and gestures that are rarely seen in cinema. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2015.

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Directed by
Chick Strand
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Beverle Houston, Karen Amend, Melissa Lou Beal
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • sexuality
  • trauma
  • healing
  • memory
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance4
Tension2
Darkness4
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Chick Strand
Starring
Beverle Houston, Karen Amend, Melissa Lou Beal, Simone Gad, Johanna Demetrakis, Cathy Freeman, Hedy Sontag, Victoria Mudo
Runtime
55 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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