The Film Comment Letter: Pieces of the Puzzle 🧩

April 05, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: Pieces of the Puzzle 🧩 View in browser   |   filmcomment.com April 5, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, This week's Letter is all about the ways in which we care for each other, whether in institutional settings or in more intimate encounters. We open with Jonathan Romney's survey of a spate of recent documentary portraits of care facilities. Inspired by the U.S. release of Nicolas Philibert's Berlin prizewinner On the Adamant , which details the day-to-day of the patients and staff of a mental-health care center located on a boat, Jonathan explores a number of other recent films from the likes of Claire Simon and Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, all of which look at clinics and hospitals from unorthodox perspectives.  Next up, critic and scholar Racquel Gates makes her Film Comment Letter debut with a deep dive into Charles Burnett's The Annihilation of Fish —a film... read