Sherman’s March

Sherman’s March

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A REAL DEAD RINGER FOR LOVE. VIDEO FOOL FOR LOVE

By Adrian Martin

Video Fool For Love is constructed from a video diary. We are told that, for ten years, Gibson carried around a compact video camera and filmed everything happening to him and around him – conversations, travels, car rides, sex, arguments: a lot of juicy, action-packed stuff. Most of the ten years fly by in a flash at the start, until we settle into the complications of a particularly difficult love triangle, when Robert is in his early 40s. First, there’s Robert and his troubled lover April, who flies off to stay in England. While she’s gone, Robert meets Gianna and they begin a wild relationship.

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SHERMAN’S MARCH DE ROSS McELWEE

Por Nicolás Carrasco

Sherman’s March (1986) muestra la búsqueda de su realizador, Ross McElwee, por encontrar una novia sureña, mientras recorre las ciudades, también sureñas, que el general del Norte William Sherman arrasó durante la Guerra Civil Norteamericana. La película es, por un lado, un documental histórico sobre Sherman y, principalmente, un diario fílmico que le sirve a su director para lidiar con una reciente ruptura amorosa. En su recorrido McElwee conoce y conversa con todo tipo de mujeres solteras y visita antiguas novias, la mayoría ahora comprometidas con otras personas.

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