The Gold Diggers (1983)
The Gold Diggers (1983)
DVDRip | AVI | 704x400 | XviD @ 1604 Kbps | English MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 85 min | 1,03 Gb
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 704x400 | XviD @ 1604 Kbps | English MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 85 min | 1,03 Gb
Genre: Drama
Director: Sally Potter
Writers: Lindsay Cooper, Rose English
Stars: George Antoni, Julie Christie, Kassandra Colson
The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson, The Gold Diggers is a key film of early '80s feminist cinema. Made with an all-woman crew, featuring stunning photography by Babette Magolte and a score by Lindsay Cooper it embraces a radical and experimental narrative structure.
Celeste (Colette Laffont) is a computer clerk in a bank who becomes fascinated by the relationship between gold and power. Ruby (Julie Christie) is an enigmatic film star in quest of her childhood, her memories and the truth about her own identity. As their paths cross they come to sense that there could be a link between the male struggle for economic supremacy and the female ideal of mysterious but impotent beauty.
This is a black and white curiosity piece, an early work from Sally Potter and featuring the wonderful Julie Christie, working no doubt for next to nothing as there doesn't appear to be a budget to speak of. Visually stunning and interesting score but hard to understand what is exactly going on. There is relatively little dialog and some narration, neither of which makes any sense at least to me. Still anything with the luminous Miss Julie Christie is worth a look and the striking cinematography is very compelling. Filmed in England I suppose but some of the snowy outdoor shots look more like they might have been shot in Iceland but I do not know. I cannot highly recommend this film unless you are a Christie fan which I am or you like artsy films that may or may not have a hidden signification.
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The Gold Diggers (1983)
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