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This viewing is exactly what I needed a confusing distraction leading my mind awake from the harsh realities of life and leading to the mind-boggling cinematic thrill that is Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. The film is a beautiful rendition of a young woman blossoming into womanhood and what comes along with that. The readings really helped to expand my knowledge of what the director was doing what is very short cuts in quick edits to help keep the viewer in the viewpoint of being almost enchanted. The score that also went wrong with the film was so beautiful you couldn’t help to think that you were in a magical place. The plot was all in all confusing and the readings did not clear up any questions or clarify any of the plot and discrepancies but when the director did this he left it completely up to the audience to interpret this and the way they wanted to. it’s a “loose plot“ which I find more appealing than a plot that tells you exactly what’s gonna happen is exactly why it happened. All in all, it was a beautiful film and I had a lot of fun watching it with all my family members. my dad just kept yelling at the TV say what’s going on I don’t understand I guess he doesn’t like foreign films.  All in all, it was funny to watch and funny to watch people’s reactions while watching it.   

This movie also surprisingly tackled a lot of troops in the cult film world such as the fantasy trough the blossoming into womanhood troll on the older woman had a few tropes as associated with her character and I felt that the movie was really using these tropes to there advantage. Such as putting blood on a flower to be compared to a young woman turning into womanhood and also using a priest as the bad character in the film.

We also had a few presentations this week one was about blade runner which I found particularly interesting so I went to go watch the movie and I was blown away. It in a way is kind of like Valerie and Her Week of Wonders because it keeps you one your toes the whole time second-guessing yourself the whole time on what’s happening.

The way the movie used light was particularly interesting to me at certain points in the movie there was a certain light used and in more dramatic points of the movie there were other lights used and throughout the movie, the characters would get into darker life and some characters we are placed in brighter light I thought it was particularly beautiful the way the director uses this method of filming.

By: Victoria Empson