https://vo.rs/tags/marianne-faithfull/Latest from the Marianne Faithfull desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Thu, 29 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/girl-on-a-motorcycle-jack-cardiffs-pop-art-reverie/<p><em>Girl on a Motorcycle</em> (1968) is a film with almost no plot and one of the most beautiful eyes in cinema behind the camera, and the tension between those two facts is the whole experience. A young woman gets out of bed before dawn, climbs into a leather catsuit, and rides a motorcycle across the French and German countryside towards her lover, and that is more or less the entire narrative. Everything interesting about the film happens in the <em>seeing</em> rather than in the story — because the man directing it was Jack Cardiff, one of the greatest cinematographers who ever lived, and here he is turning an erotic road trip into a delirium of colour and light.</p>Thu, 29 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000