(Un)Frozen expressions: Melodramatic moment, affective interval, and the transformative powers of experimental cinema
by Jiří Anger The Czech philosopher Karel Thein once said, with regard to the expressive features of Pedro Almodovar’s film Todo sobre mi madre (All About My Mother, 1999), that in melodrama, ‘a second lasts a lifetime, a minute is eternity’.[1] While the term melodrama is used in so many different contexts and with so […]