SAINT FRENZY (1983)

Starring Maribel Mejia as a young woman who goes on a road trip reeling from a string of heartbreaks and bad relationships Minters early collaboration with her thenpartner Rocha feels more apiece with the French New Wave influences of a successive generation She spoke admiringly about Godard in an interview but described her later ideas as more directly influenced by Dziga Vertov There isnt a ton of evidence of the staccato editing that would mark NADIE ES INOCENTE but one prolonged sex scene in which a furiously edited sequence of sound effects takes center stage over abstracted imagery can only hint at the individual liberation to follow