Photo of Shalimar Preuss
Photo of Shalimar Preuss

Shalimar Preuss

“[On Ma belle gosse] I didn’t want the young ones to read the script because the written word crystallises things. I was interested in what was happening between them at that moment in time, how they lived in the home. Like a cooking recipe, I knew which ingredients I wanted, and I needed to see whether it would work.”

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    STRANGE SAYS THE ANGEL

    SHALIMAR PREUSS France, 2017

    Shalimar Preuss’ film revives French Impressionist cinema with a renewed sense of realism in this lovely short vision of childhood and femininity. A pastoral setting alongside a riverbank gives way to an arresting flow of images culminating in a deeply mysterious finale waiting to be untangled.

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