Movie Details
Original Language:French
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The Scissors
DirectorMounir Fatmi
12 min
Plot
Always concerned with freedom of expression which for him is essential mounir fatmi also considers sex and does so with great delicacy To make this jewel of a film fatmi edited together censored love scenes literally cut with scissors from Une minute de soleil en moins With Les Ciseaux fatmi has produced a threefold work of memory first of all he preserves Ayouchs original film to keep it from being forgotten secondly he delivers a frontal critique of censorship to keep that too from being forgotten and thirdly it is a discourse on love to keep us from forgetting Furthermore in Les Ciseaux fatmi achieves a juxtaposition or rather a shifting between bodily embraces and the dreams that go with them The memory of the lovers plays the role of the video maker and in Les Ciseaux we go from intertwining bodies to inner images
