Improvisation is a great way to tell a story onscreen. It feels natural, fluid, human. Why isn't it why it used more frequently? One major reason is that it leads all too easily to characters contradicting each other, and it makes it hard to produce multiple takes which can be edited seamlessly together. But what if that's the effect you want>/i>?
For a long time, scientists studying memory assumed that it ran like a film. Today we know that what our brains actually do is to retain what seem like the most important pieces of memory and then fill in the gaps. As a consequence, we don't all remember things in the same way. Told in five segments, each one with its own leading lady, Ruth Caudeli's follow-up to Second Star On The Right (which also starred Diana Wiswell and Silvia Varón) plays out like five memories of the same dinner.
For a long time, scientists studying memory assumed that it ran like a film. Today we know that what our brains actually do is to retain what seem like the most important pieces of memory and then fill in the gaps. As a consequence, we don't all remember things in the same way. Told in five segments, each one with its own leading lady, Ruth Caudeli's follow-up to Second Star On The Right (which also starred Diana Wiswell and Silvia Varón) plays out like five memories of the same dinner.
- 6/5/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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