CIRCLES (shapes, movement, narrative..)

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Films in which circles- geometric, narrative, camerawork etc- feature prominently.

An example of a film in which circles feature prominently is The Sheltering Sky: a 360 degree pan, the sun dominating the first (masculine) half, the moon the (feminine) second, and the roundabout route to return to base and author.

Gilles Deleuze has described Mizoguchi as working in circles; in Sansho the Bailiff there are Anju’s ripples and small narrative circles and returns.

With Ophuls there are...