Evidence

Evidence by Caroline Champetier a director who skilfully illuminates the great filmmakers Jacques Rivettes La bande des quatre Philippe Garrels Jentends plus la guitare JeanLuc Godards Soigne ta droite and Leos Caraxs Holy Motors directs and highlights in a sequence shot in sumptuous black and white a pregnant woman in the prosaic ritual of bathing This ingenious photographer according to Agnès Varda films the obviousness of the body of gestures and lingers on the little things to take hold of a whole as in the false triviality of Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman with whom she also collaborates in Toute une nuit