72SSIFF - 20/28 September 2024
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C'est la vie, Rose / A Rose: That's What Life Is All About

Hans-Christoph Stenzel
Federal Republic of Germany
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Rosy Selavy arrives in New York, with her chessboard under her arm. occupying Duchamp's place at the Washington Square chess table (where he converses with the composer John Cage) later invites his suitors to a game. Rosy comes in contact with John Cage, with Broadway star Jean Halbert, with French singer Janet Maillard and Soho artist Hannah Wilke, before embarking on a long journey across the country, where she meets Mary Jane Collins , singer of Memphis Blues' stumbles upon a colony of Puritans, meets some hippies in the Far West, being finally raped and murdered on a beach in Los Angeles by psychiatrist Hal James.

Director
Hans-Christoph Stenzel (Germany)
Screenplay
Hans-Christof Stenzel, Jörg Fauser
Photography
Lothar E. Stickelbrucks
Edition
Rosemarie Stenzel-Quast
Music
Mary Jane Collins, Uwe Czybulka, Janet Maillard
Cast
I Sa Lo, Hannah Wilke, Kurt Kalb, Jean Halbert, Hal James, John Cage
Sound
Rosemarie Stenzel-Quast
Original song
Uwe Czybulka, según canciones populares antiguas francesas
Running Time
84 m.
Country
Federal Republic of Germany
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