There's a tension between directness and obfuscation in My Name is Hmmm..., with first-time director Agnès Troublé (better known as the fashion designer agnès b.) wavering between the approaches of Breillat and Godard. Troublé and cinematographer Jean-Philippe Bouyer envision working-class desperation with raw imagery stripped of beauty or hope, while peppering the film with fanciful visuals (superimposed images, shifting aspect ratios and color schemes). In a more cohesive film, this might reflect the perspective of eleven-year-old Céline (Lou-Lélia Demerliac), who's being sexually abused by her father and seeks escape. But here it's a hodgepodge of artistic gestures grafted onto a traditional narrative, neither fully linear nor...
- 1/28/2015
- Village Voice
Lou-Lelia Demerliac in My Name Is Hmmm... My Name Is Hmmm... director agnès b (her chi-chi brand-name signature all in lowercase with the “b” borrowed from her second husband Bourgeois) has emerged over three decades as probably France's best-known instigator of chic, no nonsense, ready-to-wear clothing. She is frequented by an A-list that includes Jodie Foster, David Bowie and Gérard Depardieu and she has provided costumes for films including the clothes worn by John Travolta and Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction.
agnès B The Dear Green Place - where her film will screen at Gff - came in to her field of vision through her friendship and support for the Glasgow-raised artist Douglas Gordon. She pursues myriad activities in the arts world, especially cinema, as well as supporting social causes such as the rebuilding of Sarajevo, a hospital in Tibet, and commitments closer to home.
“I love Douglas and his work,...
agnès B The Dear Green Place - where her film will screen at Gff - came in to her field of vision through her friendship and support for the Glasgow-raised artist Douglas Gordon. She pursues myriad activities in the arts world, especially cinema, as well as supporting social causes such as the rebuilding of Sarajevo, a hospital in Tibet, and commitments closer to home.
“I love Douglas and his work,...
- 2/20/2014
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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