Paris Calligrammes

Name: Paris Calligrammes
Genre: Documentary

Germany, France · 2020
2h 9m
Director Ulrike Ottinger
Starring
Genre Documentary

In this autobiographical film, contemporary artist Ulrike Ottinger looks back at a formative period in her life and she city where she lived it. With photographs and archival footage, Ottinger explores the intellectual, cultural, and political currents of Paris in the 1960s and their impact on her development.

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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene

While Ulrike Ottinger accesses the most consequential of decades through nostalgia, she does so with humility.

The New York Times by Glenn Kenny

The filmmaker has what seems like a torrent of anecdotes and attendant ideas to impart, but the movie never feels rushed.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Ottinger takes us through this formative time of her life in a way that deftly balances past and present to paint a picture of a threshold era of both positives and negatives.

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The New Yorker by Richard Brody

Her rhapsodic tribute to the teeming artistic apprenticeship that Paris soon offered her isn’t solely a vision of beauty: she also observed, and unsparingly recalls, the political and social ugliness with which she was confronted during her time there.