Director
Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
Starring
Edem Dela-Seshie, Thomas Love, Rachika Samarth, Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli, Phoebe DeGroot, Arlene Gregoire
Run Time
92 mins
Release Year
2019
Country of Origin
USA
Language
English, German
Director of Photography: Bill Kirstein
Editor: Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
Produced by: Anne Coburn, Bill Kirstein, Jessie Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli
Music: Rachika S
Production Designer: Miwa Sakulrat
Sound Production: Kenny Kusiak
So Pretty
Part of the Reframing the Gaze: Experiments in Women’s Filmmaking, 1972 to Now Strand
Blurring the boundary between fiction and documentary, Rovinelli’s loose adaptation of the German novel So Schön by Ronald M. Schernikau is a drifting, dreamlike portrait of queer life in New York. Characters’ everyday rhythms and personal dynamics are sensitively captured in an intimate yet non-voyeuristic way, the graceful panning shots resisting any objectifying gaze. Formally reminiscent of Mulvey and Wollen’s Riddles of the Sphinx, this contemporary take on domestic non-conformism, love and politics is a refreshing avant-garde embrace of otherness. [18]