Double Macguffin Ep. 2- 'The tree of Wooden Clogs'(1978) and 'The Last Mistress'(2007)
This week we discuss two films that take us to times and worlds away from the Covid-19 scenario the world is currently navigating.
Henry Griffin’s choice—
Emma Olmi’s film, ‘The Tree of Wooden Clogs’. A visually stunning and intensely focused work directed, written, shot and edited by Olmi. The film focuses on 3 peasant families in rural Lombardy and evokes a long forgotten, pastoral world of emotionally moving simplicities, superstitions, removed from any semblance of modernity.
Jonathan Freilich’s choice—
‘The Last Mistress’ directed by Catherine Breillat. The film centers on a conflict between a socially condoned marriage into the aristocracy and the forbidden, sexually charged and passionate affair with his mistress, La Vellini (Asia Argento).
