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    Sep 09, 2018 4 minutes

    FAUSTO ANDREA BUSSMANN

    FEVERISH AND FANTASTICAL, THE CINEMA OF ANDREA BUSSMANN IS ONE ROOTED IN stories, myths, legends, and parables. Her films, shape-shifting objects that freely interact with sources of literary and anthropological origin, engage ethnographic traditions through an intuitive, experiential approach to narrative. (Tellingly titled, her 2016 co-directed feature debut reads as a succinct encapsulation of her interests.) A metaphysical gloss on Goethe’s classic moral tale, the Canadian-born Bussmann’s first solo feature, , is structured around a series of stories concerning Oaxacan mythology. Set along the region’s black sand beaches, the film frames its many fictions as a series of recollections: of a captive woman lost at sea, of a housekeeper who stumbles upon an enchanted manor,

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