Niels Niessen

University of Minnesota

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Love in the Afternoon: L'humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999)

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Niels Niessen University of Minnesota

May 05, 2014
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Love in the Afternoon: L'humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999) robert bresson religion and cinema miracle l'humanité journal d'un curé de campagne humanity French cinema extreme cinema diary of a country priest Christ Bruno Dumont Curator's No ...

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Re: IRREVERSIBLE: The Climactic Sequence's Flight to Abstract Rapture

From hell to heaven

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Niels Niessen University of Minnesota

Friday, May 9, 2014 — 10:18 pm
Thanks for your post Tim, a beautiful reading of this scene. I don't think I've ever rewatched "Irréversible," one of the reasons precisely because the film has always stayed with me. I'm wondering what you make of the film's ...
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Re: Love in the Afternoon: L'humanité (Bruno Dumont, 1999)

secular-religious humanism

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Niels Niessen University of Minnesota

Wednesday, May 14, 2014 — 8:04 pm
Thanks all for your comments. In my view the extremity and sensuous nature of Dumont’s films functions to ground and immanentize their Catholic vocabulary (Pharaon's levitation, the shot of a church entrance). Dumont makes religious films in a world ...