Jonathan Freilich Presents

The Double MacGuffin

The Double MacGuffin is a podcast series of conversations on film with Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich . There has been a two year hiatus from the first set originally published on Nolascape. Those will be migrated here. Those before 2020 have a slightly different format: they are on one movie. In our continuation it will be a double feature: two films discussed.

Double Macguffin Ep. 2- 'The tree of Wooden Clogs'(1978) and 'The Last Mistress'(2007)

This week we discuss two films that take us to times and worlds away from the Covid-19 scenario the world is currently navigating.

Henry Griffin’s choice—

Emma Olmi’s film, ‘The Tree of Wooden Clogs’. A visually stunning and intensely focused work directed, written, shot and edited by Olmi. The film focuses on 3 peasant families in rural Lombardy and evokes a long forgotten, pastoral world of emotionally moving simplicities, superstitions, removed from any semblance of modernity.

Jonathan Freilich’s choice—

‘The Last Mistress’ directed by Catherine Breillat. The film centers on a conflict between a socially condoned marriage into the aristocracy and the forbidden, sexually charged and passionate affair with his mistress, La Vellini (Asia Argento).

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