A biographical film of a famous personality or historical figure. Marie Antoinette and Vision are examples of Bio-pics.
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Define: Climax
The highest point of anxiety or tension in a story or film in which the central character/protagonist faces, confronts, and deals with the consequence(s) of all his/her actions
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Where does the film Vagabond by Agnès Varda takes place?
South of France; mainly outdoors, vineyards and farming landscape.
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Which filmmaker likes to portrait walls, jail, and self-exile in her films?
Margerethe von Trotta
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Where is Iciar Bollaín from? What film has she directed that we watched?
Spain. Mataharis
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Who uses the term cinécriture to define her work as filmmaker?
Agnès Varda came up with the concept cinécriture to talk about filmic writing. It refers to style.
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What are the three names of the protagonists on Mataharis by Iciar Bollaín?
Inés, Eva, and Carmen
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Where was Marie Antoinette from?
She was from Austria
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Define: Allusion
A direct or indirect reference - through an image or through dialogue - to the Bible, a classic, a person, a place, an external and/or real-life event, another film, or a well-known cultural idea.
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In which movie did we see the character Volmar?
The film is Vision by Margerethe von Trotta. Brother Volmar is the chaplain and Hildegard’s confessor.
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Who is Iñaki?
Iñaki is Eva’s husband, who had a child with another woman before he married and started a family with Eva, in Mataharis by Iciar Bollaín.
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Define: Ambiguity
An event (and its outcome) deliberately left unclear, and there may exist more than one meaning or interpretation.
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Define: Directing the eye
The use of light and dark lighting and frame composition to emphasize what is important.
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What is the name of the man who gives shelter and trains Mona in pruning vineyards?
His name is Assoun, and he is from Turkey.
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Who is Sally’s partner in The Tango Lesson?
Pablo Veron
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Who quits a job because of work ethics and honesty conflict?
Inés. She reaches a point that has to quit her job, because she finds out the truth about what the company (client) is looking for.
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Define: Mise-en-scène
A French term for "staging;" in film theory, it refers to all the elements placed (by the director) before the camera and within the frame of the film.
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Define: Double
A recurring theme in Von Trotta’s films. As von Trotta explains, it reflects “—the other side of yourself—”
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Define: Transgression
It portrays or depicts cultural traditions being reversed, (i.e. a woman who works as detective).
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Define: Ellipsis
Omission of intervals or sections in the narrative story (plot) or action.
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Define: Framed Narratives
A story embedded in the main story.
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Define: Authorship
In film theory, Authorship relates to both ownership and writing or creation. It ascribes overall responsibility for the creation of a film and its personal vision, identifiable style, thematic aspects and techniques to its film-maker or director.
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Define: Montage
A French word literally meaning "editing", "putting together" or "assembling shots"; refers to a filming technique and editing style.
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Who is Dante in The Man Who Cried by Sally Potter?
Dante is Lola’s boyfriend and the opera singer who betrays Susannah’s secret to the Nazis
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Define: Gaze
The act of looking with the desire to possess the object (objectification). The gaze in cinema was traditionally male, i.e. active and objectifying. For the female, submission to the passive role of “to-be-looked-at-ness.”