Male Myopia Under the Microscope: Two New Restorations of Films by Simon Edelstein

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"Two of Edelstein's directing efforts play at the Locarno Film Festival this year, having been restored by the Cinémathèque suisse. Not only does this point a long-overdue spotlight at the work of a not-so-marginal figure from the Groupe 5 movement: the choice of films provides festivalgoers with an excellent opportunity to witness the ways in which this style of Swiss auteur cinema is in constant conversation with itself."

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