Ordinary Things (that happened in the childhood home of the maker of this film)
"The reliability of memory is being questioned when, set within the highly constructed world of Old Hollywood, the filmmaker recalls memories of her childhood home."
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Somewhere between the 1930s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor gleams, the spotlights are burning, the narration starts. Born out of a fascination for the construction that is Hollywood, and by extension ‘the perfect Hollywood home’, the maker embodies three actresses from Hollywood’s golden era and their so-called private lives. Their smallest personality traits are performed so precise and characteristically that it becomes artificial. The home isn’t homely. It plays “house” and the inhabitants are speaking Hollywoodian. In this setting, the maker of the film recalls memories of growing up in her childhood home.
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Director
Rachel Gruijters
Writer
Rachel Gruijters
Assistant Director of Photography
Charles Dhondt
Director of Photography
Lennert De Taeye
Editor
Rachel Gruijters
Producer
Lotte Van Craeynest
hollywoodchildhood homedomesticitycinema historywomen in filmmemoriessuspension of disbelief
Status
Released
Countries
Belgium
Companies
Blauwhuis
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