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Audience Member 25.1.2011 Man Ray continued his experimental cinema with a more complex and sophisticated film. Again, it's about light, shape and the texture of the image. His understanding of these elements and of rhytm are that of an artist. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member The eye, the eye... it seems it was betrayed by the shapes! No! To me, all those images weren't unrelated. The world is all shape and movement. The flowers are the door. We see flowers, than nails, some flowing shapes... then we see flowers again before the woman with the automobil shows up somewhere at the seaside. Whitout being obvious, the images are related... the girl's eyes are painted, she can't see... hands of shadow fondle the world. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member After seeing Man Ray's "La Retour a la Raison" recently, I decided to watch this 1926 short of his. What I got was some of the most gorgeous filming I've seen in any era. The first half seems to come back to certain shots from Raison, like white circles and jittering white lines against blackness, and he intersperses them with shots of nature, a woman putting on a necklace and lipstick, and abstract shadow/light playing, but then the second half gets more trippy. He does some stuff with blocks and dice over a floor painted like a Picasso-fied person, before the end slows to a crawl with hypnotic circles of light and pink ribbon and this absolutely enigmatic manipulation of contrast and a human hand to create this black and white attack. Ray seems to have a knack for great transitions and tasteful abstraction, in that he always seems to ground it all thematically (the dude has an obsession with white circles of light!). That said, I'm really looking forward to more of Ray's stuff. He has such a poetic touch that's very visually engaging. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/15/23 Full Review Audience Member This is more mindless wankery ("let's see what happens when I do this with the camera") than true surrealism, but there are a few clever or evocative bits. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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