Essential Cinema: You're My Greatest Treasure: 10 Exercises in Intimacy
REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA
Directed by Jonas Mekas
UK/Germany, 1972, 1h 28min, Digital
Essential Cinema You're My Greatest Treasure: 10 Exercises in Intimacy
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“Successively moving, indulgent, beautiful, poetic, banal, repetitious, and bravely, heedlessly personal.”
—The New York Times
“One of the most beautifully constructed and articulated narrative lines in autobiographical cinema.”
—The Village Voice
“A comment on how someone can cope with a feeling of profound cultural displacement by making art.”
—National Gallery of Art
Who says you can’t go home? Returning to Lithuania after 27 years abroad, Jonas Mekas and younger brother Adolfas’ homecoming is documented as an exquisite triptych which sees the pair reunite with siblings, neighbors, and their mother. One of the most acclaimed works of Jonas Mekas’ impressive oeuvre, REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA is the perfect entry-point to cinema’s greatest diarist. Screening with a short film from Mekas.
