Showing posts with label Kate Del Castillo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kate Del Castillo. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Antonioni's BLOW UP and Kate Del Castillo's Camera-licked Body

I like watching the following fluff piece on Mexican (sans quotation marks!) Kate Del Castillo because of the subterranean allegory on cameras and subjectivity that unfolds as you watch it:



It evokes (the same way indigestion follows an amazing banquet) the memory of Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-up); however, where Antonioni's cinematic classic sought to out the uncanny power of cameras (as Michael Powell had with Peeping Tom), television's InStyle en español merely, and without irony, repeats the troped-out trope of stardom as the apex of identity, of the celebrity actress/model as 21st-century avatar of the ideal.

I will stick with Antonioni!

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