Charles Mudede on Tilda Swinton:
In 2006, Swinton gave a speech at the San Francisco International Film Festival that throws considerable light on the greatness of not only BĂ©la Tarr's new film [The Man from London] but also any film that strives to achieve the condition of cinemaâwhich is very different from the condition of literature, photography, music, and theater (the arts that become one in cinema): "Can I be alone in my longing for inarticulacy, for a cinema that refuses to join all the dots? For an arrhythmia in gesture, for a dissonance in shape?... The figurative cinema's awkward and rather unsavory relationship with its fruity old aunt, the theater, to her vanities, her... perennially eloquent speechifying, her cast-iron, corsetlike structures, her melodramatic texture, and her histrionic rhythms. How tiresome it is; it always has been."
Read the full review HERE.