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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.
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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.
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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.