FILM

How Can I Love (A Man When I Know He Don't Want Me)
Anne-Marie Miéville, 1983, CH, FR, 35mm, 13'

"Before being a short film, this film by Anne-Marie Miéville is first and foremost cinema–and it’s personal cinema. It goes straight to the core, without frills, without any form of self-protection... The film revolves around the godardian scenario par excellence, indeed, that of Carmen: someone loves someone who can’t or doesn’t want to answer this proposal of love. Incidentally, the title comes from Otto Preminger's Carmen Jones. The same origin. But the situation has been reversed; it’s the woman who still loves a man who no longer loves her, and it was filmed rather from the woman's point of view. Which changes everything. "(Alain Bergala)

 

French spoken, English subtitles