Alice Diop’s New Film Nourished Her

Alice Diop’s New Film Nourished Her

Alice Diop’s new film opens with a stare: a woman, painted by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, lying in recline for his Grande Odalisque. Her gray eyes gaze blankly into the viewer’s. For the next eight minutes, the camera cuts from one porcelain-skinned woman to another, painted finely and even lovingly, their likenesses portrayed in beauty and perpetuity…

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