Lisandro Alonso interview (Cineaste)
excerpts from : " Cinema Beyond Words " By: Dennis West and Joan M. West ( Cineaste , Spring 2011) Really interesting interview (spreading on 9 pages!), looking back on the trilogy : La Libertad, Los Muertos, Liverpool . The title is fitting, I like it. Sadly, they had to pimp it up on the magazine cover and word out the infamous " slow cinema " stereotype that any serious critic caring for cinema aesthetics beyond its formated speed should avoid like the plague... This shallow shorthand was particularly unnecessary since the interviewers never asked Lisandro Alonso to comment on this random appellation. Anyway. The interviewers seem very familiar with Latin American life and culture, which makes for an in-depth and pertinent discussion, although... overtly on the literary side unfortunately. For an article titled "beyond words", there is too much novel references and not enough visual mise en scène analysis. Which is inadequate for Lisandro Alonso's ...