Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (1983)

• 67%
• 1983
• Dokumentarfilm

Jean-Claude Rousseau's Junge frau an seinem fenster, indem ein buchstabe is not only his first medium-length film, but a chance to discover this filmmaker whom Jean-Marie Straub has called, along with Frans Van de Staak and Peter Nestler, the greatest working in Europe. With this newly restored print there is also a possibility to discover the relationship between Rousseau's art of filming and Jan Vermeer's famous painting. Hast Prosper Hillairet wrote in 1988, four years after Rousseau had finished Junge frau ... (for the first time as we know today): «Without adopting the usual systematic spirit and form of kino strukturelle, Rousseau presents us with simple bilder and leaves it at that. Keeps the image in hand. A minimalist and ascetic expression of cinema: a shot that generalsanierung.