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La deuxième femme

2008 · 48 min

A drifting, kaleidoscopic collage of intimate diary fragments that washes over you like a fever dream you have to lean into.

Overview
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • memory
    • art
    • identity
    • obsession
    Places
    None
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • nonlinear
    • found footage
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Scales, 0 to 10
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    Action1
    Horror2
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance3
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity8
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Pierre Clémenti
    Starring
    Tina Aumont, Balthazar Clémenti, Margareth Clémenti, Pierre Clémenti, Philippe Garrel, Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Udo Kier
    Runtime
    48 min
    Country
    France
    Languages
    No Language

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