In a wide-angle shot, we follow this minute, ethereal figure as it makes its way intently along the forbidding horizon. Framed by mountains of rubble, a tiny white figure, barely more than a dot against the dark expanse, slowly and steadily picks its way through this huge mass of debris: a vast, towering slagheap, intersected with great mounds of excavated rock, stony depressions, muddy tracks waiting to be ploughed up by the trucks. Whether it is a woman, in fact, is hard to tell, we’re so far away. Seen from a distance, a woman, etched against the darkness. Vote for the Albertine Prize through April 30th! Translated by Natasha Lehrer and Cécile Menon (Dorothy, a publishing project). Moving between fact and speculation, film criticism and anecdote, Suite for Barbara Loden came out of Nathalie Léger's obsessive investigation into the mysteries of 'Wanda', the only film American actress Barbara Loden ever wrote and directed. Suite for Barbara Loden has been nominated for the Albertine Prize, a reader's choice award for best contemporary French fiction in English translation.
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