Razor's Edge

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Barber, Stephanie, filmmaker.

Canyon Cinema, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965. Razor's edge--Drama.

Maugham, W. Somerset.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (45 min.)

Distribution:

New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film

Place of Publication:

San Francisco Canyon Cinema 2010

Summary:

One friend tells another friend what she remembers from reading the Somerset Maugham novel The Razors Edge 10 or 15 years ago. It is a sketchy and slanted remembering. They decide to shoot a film of this memory, a foggy tale with scant connection to the original but feeling the patronage of that text. Being artists and tricksters they do it as a game, all in one week, with donated short ends and gestural implications to narrative. What they really do is visit after years of not visiting. Endless talks about the state of the planet and our access to knowledge--power or ineptitude of art. All this talking and the film turns out with almost no dialog, sweeps through the city of Baltimore which is often destitute, tropical and friendly

Credits:

Stephanie Barber, filmmaker

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title screen

OCLC:

1343076521

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license