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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty (2012)
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Information
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 84 min.
- Director
- Terence Nance
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Animation, Comedy
- Rating *
- 6.1
- Votes *
- 465
- Checks
- 141
- Favs
- 9
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 6.4% (1:16)
- Favs/dislikes
- 9:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
In specificity, there is universality. An Oversimplification of Her Beauty may be Terrence Nance's obsessive dissection of his unrequited feelings for one woman (and others as context), but while the "you" spoken by the narrator (who was that? great voice!) is always Nance himself, it was sometimes in fact "me", people I know, or complete strangers. Nance is brutal with himself, the film a portrait AND a manifestation of his romantic anxiety; it's not just about him wallowing in self-pity, it's part of the wallowing itself. You might even think parts of it are a little skeevy in the post-consent world of today, but I think he knows that and it's one more layer of his self-deprecating (which can be quite funny, honestly). It's also part of the play with the documentary and autobiographical format. Insightful, surprising, intimate, the film may make you fall for the girl of his dreams as well, and I love the art house experimentalism, which includes beautiful, surreal animation in many styles. The one ugly moment, for me, was his bitterly reductive 2-second summation, but it too is an honest feeling and fits the stream of consciousness of the film. 3 years 2 months ago -
nbats
https://sockshare.ac/watch/oxQ9Doxn-an-oversimplification-of-her-beauty.html 3 years 1 month ago -
mook
Experimental analysis of the director & his relationships. Ok but overlong and suffers from its lack of convential structure. 6/10. 11 years 11 months ago