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KRISTINA TALKING PICTURES

Yvonne Rainer | 90 min | United States | 1976

Rainer’s elegiac third feature unshackles narrative from conventional representation, using the paradoxical figure of a lion tamer, Kristina (played by several women, including Rainer herself), who arrives from Budapest to 1970s New York City, harboring hopes of becoming a choreographer, as well as romantic affections for an elusive sailor named Raoul.


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