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Federico Fellini, Wim Wenders, Alain Resnais, Nicholas Ray, Francis Ford Coppola, Satyajit Ray, Alan Crosland, Abbas Kiarostami, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Manoel de Oliveira, Jim Jarmusch, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette, Leos Carax, Peter Handke, Philippe Garrel, Theo Angelopoulos, Ferydoun Rahnema, Kenji Mizoguchi, etc.
Here are some of the filmmakers studied by Youssef Ishaghpour in this comprehensive book that traces 40 years of creation, what the author calls "the third age of cinema," the third period that comes after the beginnings of the origins and after the golden age of Hollywood.

Through each film, Youssef Ishaghpour offers a triple reading of modernity: political reading (what films say about society), philosophical reading (what they say about humans), cinematic reading (how they say it). For each director, the author seeks to know how it works . Because what interests him above all is the status of fiction and image.

Extract :

"In cinema there is only the present, the image is always current on the screen. The qualities of past, future, fiction, reality are secondary determinations, literally "stuck" to the image from the outside, by its place in the course of the action, the narrative, or by the director's practice, the editing. This is why action, narrative, editing are periodically denounced as relations imposed from the outside, by the intellect and ideology, relations that make the Self lose its being itself, the present its presence, the cinematographic image that particular grace that was called in its beginnings "photogenic": the rustling of the grass, the passage of a train, its reflection in a puddle of water. Thus what in The Left-Handed Woman may seem like the clumsiness of a writer using cinema is, once again, nothing but disengagement, a suspension of relations, a return to origins."
About The Left-Handed Woman, by Peter Handke

270 pages / 978-2-914823-3-64
Exiles, April 2025