At Land (1944)
5/10
The declining avant-garde
27 August 2023
Kind of "experimental" movie, quite popular a few decades ago ("popular" is too big a word..), and now decisively out of fashion, at the point that contemporary audiences are wondering what could be the meaning of them.

A woman, apparently the victim of a shipwreck, is pushed back by the waves onto a beach. Later she is seen in a large society meeting dinner hall, where she is crawling upon the long table, unseen by all the guests, until she reaches the point where two persons are playing chess (one of them is John Cage, they tell me).

Later on, she introduces herself, with a perfect make-up and hair dressing, in the room in which a man with moustaches is laying in bed.

At the end she comes back to the beach, on which two women are playing chess: she (or maybe another woman) grabs one of the chess pieces and starts running along the sandy shore.
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