Muriel Box, urban filmmaker
PostED ON OCTOBER 15, 2018
Come discover the pleasant cinema of Muriel Box. The English director tried her hand at just about everything: colors, misty black and whites, comedies, thrillers, social dramas, military curiosities...
If we were to look for a common denominator that would constitute Muriel Box's cinematographic signature, we might search for a certain ethereal quality to her filming of urban stories, city stories, apartment stories and more
Simon and Laura
Box's films are fleeting. Whether it's a boy who sticks to prostitute in noisy London in “Rattle of a Simple Man” (1964) or a reasonable inter-generational drama entitled “Too Young to Love” (1960), or an intense-eyed singer (German muse Hildegard Knef) living a grand - but brief - affair in “The Passionate Stranger” (1957), all of Box's films carry a taste of life... above all!
There are mores and fashions of the day, but also eternal universals such as the love of music, lively sounds that lead the body and certain novelties such as the advent of reality TV (Box was so ahead of her time) in the very elegant “Simon and Laura” (1955). Without being a pioneer, Muriel Box was an expert witness!
Virginie Apiou
