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One of the most remarkable and innovative documentaries ever made, this film by Françoise Romand (1986) follows the famous true story of two English women who as babies got switched in the hospital and 20 years later discovered that they'd been raised by the wrong sets of parents. Romand enlists all the surviving family members in her haunting and bizarre investigation, which involves not only a recounting but a reenactment of all the significant events in the two daughters' emotional histories. The seriousness and thoroughness with which she pursues her approach create a formal beauty and a witty precision in framing, pacing, editing, use of music, and mise en scene that is inseparable from the film's ethical and philosophical project...
The mix-up of the title refers not only to the putative subject but to many stylistic and formal collisions: fiction versus fact, French versus English, memory versus imagination.
The film is in English and subtitled in three languages (French, German, and English). The DVD aims to continue the success that the film has witnessed over the past twenty years and includes an interview with the American film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and Françoise Romand as well as, biographies, filmographies, and a slide show.
| Catalog Number: MC-707 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Documentary |
| Copyright: 1986 |
Length: 80 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC & PAL |
ISBN: |
UPC: 880198070791 |
| Label: Lowave |
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Films In Compilation
Mix-up directed by
Françoise
Romand
France,
Documentary,
1986,
Color,
Magnetic Stereo,
00:00:00
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2007-07-12 Senses of Cinema
By Adam Hart
A visually stylish, playful postmodernist who rejects the idea of the camera as impartial observer
| 2007-07-12 New York Times
By Vincent Canby
MIX-UP has some of the style of Peter Greenaway's Falls and The Draughtsman's Contract . . . it's the work of a film maker of original vision
| 2007-07-12 New York Times
By Vincent Canby
Miss Romand makes documentaries that look like those of nobody else
| 2007-07-12 Chicago Reader
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
One of the most remarkable and innovative documentaries ever made . . . An astonishing film debut
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