I Just Can’t Go On

Film Information:
Year:

1973

I Just Can’t Go On

País:

 

Director:

John Cook

Color:

B&W

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

50 min

Production:

  • FOTOGRAFÍA: John Cook
  • MONTAJE: Stefanie Schulz
  • PRODUCCIÓN: John Cook, Elfie Semotan

Contact:

  • Austrian Filmmuseum
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Synopsis

Original title: Ich schaff’s einfach nimmer

I Just Can’t Go On is a perfect debut: it conveys a a sense of absolute freedom, thanks to Cook’s spontaneous camerawork, the roughness of its textures, the rawness of its montage. But the clincher are those stabs at fiction: the woman who reads a dramatic letter from her wannabe-pugilist husband makes all that follows look like an urgent memory, their life condensed into a story. I Just Can’t Go On could easily be mistaken for a piece of indulgent ‘70s social democratic bull, but what comes across the strongest is the gentle and affectionate glow cast over Cook’s often harsh world, in which everybody, no matter how weird or awkward they might look, are wonderful and loveable. Which is the essence of Cook’s cinema: There’s no reason to hate people, even if they’re blatant assholes.

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