Paris Calligrammes review: trip back to 1960s Paris
Ulrike Ottinger recalls her time spent on the Left Bank and with friend and bookseller Fritz Picard with wit and warmth in this essayistic documentary.
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Ulrike Ottinger recalls her time spent on the Left Bank and with friend and bookseller Fritz Picard with wit and warmth in this essayistic documentary.
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âParis Calligrammesâ Review: Recalling the 1960s With Fondness and Passion The German artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger takes us on an unhurried journey through her past. Fritz Picard, who ran the Paris bookstore Calligrammes, which served German expatriates, in the documentary âParis Calligrammes.âCredit...Icarus Films Together Together When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The German artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, whose work is not nearly as well distributed in the United States as it ou...
© Getty Images Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up There has been nothing quite like the lockdown of 2020-21 in the history of cinema, but it echoes what happened to art cinemas during World War II. In Britain, all cinemas were ordered closed at the outbreak in September 1939 – then were allowed to reopen within the month. Most of them continued even through the Blitz a year later, in 1940-41, but art cinemas – sometimes called ‘continental’ c...