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Monday, Feb 12, 1990
Twilight City
"A love story about the city and its undesirables," this new film by the Black Audio Film Collective evokes the New London-in the filmmakers' words "a fading world of being and unbelonging:...invisible communities, the displaced and the rise of redevelopment." A Chris Marker-like epistolary narrative is combined with interpretive documentary to marry story and setting as one poetic entity. The letters concern Eugenia, who has left London for the Dominican Republic vowing never to return; ten years later, she wants to come "home," but she wants to be invited. The dilemma of her daughter Olivia, a journalist researching the creation of wealth in the New London, is that there is no home for Mother to come to as she watches the London of her childhood sink into a dystopia of redevelopment. Typical of the Black Audio Film Collective's work, visual themes are elaborated with a musical sensibility. "This is a beautiful and intelligent treatment raising questions of empire and the city, racism and politics, identity and memory. Don't miss" (Melbourne Film Festival).
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