A Story of Children and Film is a beautiful, intelligent and
mesmerising film essay on how children and childhood have been portrayed in
film over the years. Mark Cousins has an
extraordinary ability to engage, inspire and inform all at the same time.
Put together in an entrancing way, that feels like one of the relentless and exciting journeys depicted in some of the chosen films, Cousins identifies several key emotions of
childhood (from wariness, to adventure, to the strop) and picks clips from
films both familiar and strange to demonstrate how good film can be at
reflecting the world back at us. He does
this not only by pointing out what the film is showing us but how it is showing
it to us – by camera work, lighting, editing, sound, showing the brilliance of the
film makers behind the clips. I was
completely engrossed from start to finish, and came away with another list of
films to check out.
This is a documentary that can speak for itself, so I’m not
going to say much more other than check it out if you can.
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