Thursday, May 6, 2010
Film William Lubtchansky, 1937-2010
Posted by Mark Asch on Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- A still from Rivette and Lubtchansky's Love on the Ground
I know Lubtchansky best through his recent sleek-gorgeous, grainy-intimate black-and-white work with Philippe Garrel—reviewing Frontier of Dawn, The L's Nicolas Rapold appreciated how "high-contrast black-and-white... captures the sculpted curvature of [actress Laura] Smet’s face and angles in empty apartments," which gets at the private, soulful beauty Lubtchansky was able to bring out of Garrel's material. The two also collaborated on one of the most objectively beautiful movies of the past decade, Regular Lovers, which included, embedded after the jump, a clip which you absolutely must watch, and which feels as if it should probably stand as the last word on this image-maker's career:
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