Angle

ANGLE with its brief black and white shots almost always plunging and oblique of naked bodies or parts of bodies is a film of rupture Punctuations of black primers break up the filmic continuity isolating snapshots or brief furtive movements the body rolling over itself colliding with the other or falling these terrible falls as sharp as a fainting spell like that of the hero of The Andalusian Dog whose hand as he falls brushes for a moment against the naked back of a beautiful insensitive woman and which is it seems to me the most striking representation of the link between passion in love and death that can be given Often these movements are repeated and the actors seem to be the descendants of Muybridges bonshommes lost in a white room At the end this is the longest shot in the film in a corner of the room one of the two actors remains crouched hiding his eyes in his hands Then the corner reappears empty