Respite

The love of a woman brings out the face of a clown.
gina telaroli

Light, a constantly moving camera, cryptic sounds, and memory merge into one moment (one movie) that is played out on the tired lines of a man's face in Aleksei German's masterpiece Twenty Days without War.

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