FRANCISCA [DVD] Le Guin on Race (4

Le Guin on Race (4 minutes)

is a multidimensional journey through time

An inquiry into the contemporary humanitarian impulse that moves like a suspense thriller—but which never quite goes where you expect it to—Muntean’s film knowingly plays off and subverts conventions of both horror films and social realist drama

As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story (long rumored to be the inspiration for the classic Hollywood film NETWORK)

FRANCISCA [DVD] Le Guin on Race (4A portrait of an obsessive love affair, Manoel de Oliveiras Francisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa Lus, whose work hed later adapt twice more. The books re telling of a troubled passage in real life author Camilo Castelo Branco life his friend Jos Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved led Oliveira to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. (It helped that his wife, a