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Queen of Diamonds
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76 min.)
- Distribution:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles Arbelos Films 2023
- Summary:
- Critically acclaimed for her radical feminist body of work, NinaMenkes' Queen of Diamonds (Sun- dance '91) is the second title ina quartet of films (alongside The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983),Magdalena Viraga (1986), and The Bloody Child (1996)), thatMenkes produced, wrote, directed, and shot, all of which star hersister, Tinka Menkes.Queen of Diamonds follows the life of Firdaus (Tinka Menkes),a Blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas landscape juxtaposed betweenglittering casino lights and the surrounding barren desert landscapes.Negotiating a missing husband and neighboring domestic violence,Firdaus' world unfolds as a fragmented but hypnotic interplaybetween repetition and repressed anger. Shot with beautifulcompositional rigor, Queen of Diamonds is a remarkable anddemanding masterpiece of American independent filmmaking
- Participant:
- Tinka Menkes.
- Credits:
- Nina Menkes, filmmaker
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen
- OCLC:
- 1402188529
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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