Ordinary Things (that happened in the childhood home of the maker of this film)
Ordinary Things (that happened in the childhood home of the maker of this film)

Ordinary Things (that happened in the childhood home of the maker of this film)

| 12 min

Somewhere between the 1930s and now, the cameras start turning and Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Marlene Dietrich gather on one film set. The floor gleams, the spotlights are burning, the narration starts. Born out of a fascination for the construction that is Hollywood, and by extension ‘the perfect Hollywood home’, the maker embodies three actresses from Hollywood’s golden era and their so-called private lives. Their smallest personality traits are performed so precise and characteristically that it becomes artificial. The home isn’t homely. It plays “house” and the inhabitants are speaking Hollywoodian. In this setting, the maker of the film recalls memories of growing up in her childhood home.

Genres

Cast

Rachel Gruijters

Rachel Gruijters

Share on social media

More Like This

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic
The Majestic
Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
Bowfinger
Hollywood Homicide
Hollywood Hobbies
The Muppet Movie
Crash!
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Love Happens
Decasia: The State of Decay
House
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
The Last Movie Star
A Motorcycle Saved My Life
Man with a Movie Camera
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood
Cinema in Russia
Agora
The Memory of Cinema: A Film About Fernando Méndez-Leite