https://vo.rs/tags/therese-and-isabelle/Latest from the Therese and Isabelle desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/therese-and-isabelle-metzgers-tender-boarding-school-romance/<p>Radley Metzger occupied a corner of cinema almost nobody else could reach: the point where the erotic film aspired to the condition of literature, and occasionally got there. <em>Therese and Isabelle</em> (1968) is the clearest proof of that ambition. Adapted from a censored novel by one of France&rsquo;s most uncompromising writers, shot in luminous black-and-white, structured around interior monologue and memory, it is an art film that happens to concern desire, and a desire film that behaves throughout like art. I want to consider it as film history and craft — how it was made, what it borrowed from the literary avant-garde, and why restraint turned out to be Metzger&rsquo;s most powerful tool.</p>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000