Film Description:
"Co-director Sofia Bohdanowicz's alter ego Audrey (Deragh Campbell) moves to Paris to tend to the home of her recently deceased friend Juliane (the protagonist of Bohdanowicz's 2017 Maison du bonheur). Listless with depression, she tries to re-establish her footing in the world by starting a video correspondence with two other filmmakers, Burak from Istanbul and Blake from Toronto, who soon become intrinsic to her healing process. Sliding from 16mm to 4K and 3D to weave three disparate filmmaking styles into a seamless narrative, A Woman Escapes builds a world that, riffing on both Nam June Paik and Robert Bresson (particularly the latter's famous phrase at the start of A Man Escaped), is as spellbinding as it is pensive."
-- Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal
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Film Description:
"Sitting by the window of a Parisian apartment willed to her by a late friend, a young woman observes the world passing her by. Trapped by her grief and untethered from the world, she begins a series of video correspondences with two filmmakers, Blake Williams in Toronto and Burak Çevik in Istanbul, whose words and images begin to form a kind of escape. With co-directors Çevik and Williams, director Sofia Bohdanowicz crafts a spiritual sequel to her 2017 film Maison du bonheur. Here, Bohdanowicz once again employs cinematic alter-ego Audrey Benac, blurring lines between diary film and traditional narrative. The film unfolds like an epistolary novel, each correspondence filmed and narrated by the filmmakers using their respective cinematic approaches: saturated, foggy 16 millimeter; icy sharp 4K HD; and the simulated depth of stereoscopic 3D images. With a loving fondness for Bressonian techniques, Bohdanowicz, Williams, and Çevik offer a collaborative meditation on grief and the vital role of community in healing."
-- Vancouver International Film Festival
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