Pop 2014

Pop, Doru. Romanian New Wave Cinema: An Introduction. McFarland, 2014, p. 146 (Type: book) » Download PDF

Extract: Visual artists have always recanted "old" imaginaries; photographers, painters and cinematographers are notoriously borrowing mythological and theological narratives and turning them into new aesthetic discourses. This is the case with Susan Dorothea White's The First Supper, where Jesus and the apostles were substituted by various women of various races, or with David LaChapelle's version of The Last Supper, done in a totally mundane and burlesque context. This is also the case with Viridiana, made by Buñuel, one of the classical cinematic reenactments of this religious subject matter.