

The first thing that strikes you is the temperature: even in grayscale the film feels sunburnt, as though the celluloid itself absorbed the throb of the Maghreb midday and now radiates it back through the projector bulb. Director Willi Wolff—often dismissed as Ellen Richter’s studio spouse rather than auteur—engineer...


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Adolf Gärtner

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" The first thing that strikes you is the temperature: even in grayscale the film feels sunburnt, as though the celluloid itself absorbed the throb of the Maghreb midday and now radiates it back through the projector bulb. Director Willi Wolff—often dismissed as Ellen Richter’s studio spouse rather than auteur—engineers a fever dream that begins in the frost of European high society and ends amid the thermals of North African nocturne. The tonal shift is so abrupt you can practically hear the me..."

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