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The action takes place on a Paris metro platform where a billposter covers a large advertising billboard with a sequence of images that depict a car parked on a Parisian street that bursts into flames becomes swallowed up in smoke and then remains only as a skeleton of the former car Using a laborious traditional system to mount the details of each image this cinematic event gradually unfolds over the 72minute film offering a slow contemplative consideration of political violence as a counterpoint to the rapid barrage of images we typically experience in our news media Despite its slow nearly meditative pace Baudelaire creates a haunting and provocative work that completely absorbs the viewer
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