Comments on: Wild is the Wind http://trilema.com/2019/wild-is-the-wind/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 21:24:14 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2019/wild-is-the-wind/#comment-161596 Mircea Popescu Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:11:57 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=82681#comment-161596 I reviewed this recently, and... well, there's a certain inescapable charm in the woman's struggle, as bare life, as an animal, between the birthgiving sheep and the deathmarked horse. There's a certain boko haram beauty to the daughterless woman telling the motherless girl not to cry, because... well... There's indisputedly a frank yet warm, warmly forcible rendition of the strings of female flesh. Tres recherche, of course, but then again how's one to make films otherwise ? And Bene loves her, and she's not ashamed, and... I reviewed this recently, and... well, there's a certain inescapable charm in the woman's struggle, as bare life, as an animal, between the birthgiving sheep and the deathmarked horse. There's a certain boko haram beauty to the daughterless woman telling the motherless girl not to cry, because... well... There's indisputedly a frank yet warm, warmly forcible rendition of the strings of female flesh. Tres recherche, of course, but then again how's one to make films otherwise ?

And Bene loves her, and she's not ashamed, and...

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2019/wild-is-the-wind/#comment-127990 Mircea Popescu Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:09:28 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=82681#comment-127990 That thing at least had life in its body. That thing at least had life in its body.

]]> By: pletzalcoatl http://trilema.com/2019/wild-is-the-wind/#comment-127988 pletzalcoatl Tue, 19 Feb 2019 00:04:18 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=82681#comment-127988 This thing was pretty much the Spaghetti version of Taylor's 1956 Giant; import dame, watch her struggle with established hausfrauen, watch her try not to get entangled with localyokel, and meanwhile a fuckton of spurious horse/sheep/mountain shots. Pretty sure Giant featured live bovine, rather than ovine, birth footage, however. This thing was pretty much the Spaghetti version of Taylor's 1956 Giant; import dame, watch her struggle with established hausfrauen, watch her try not to get entangled with localyokel, and meanwhile a fuckton of spurious horse/sheep/mountain shots.

Pretty sure Giant featured live bovine, rather than ovine, birth footage, however.

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