Dont Look Back

Five years after the birth of direct cinema, the genre produced what (in my opinion) is its first and undeniable masterpiece. ‘Observational cinema’, the ‘cinema of objectivity’, the ‘cinema-that-does-not-interfere-and-does-not-ask’ launches its golden era with a scene (not coincidentally the first in the film) which alone would suffice to reveal the unavoidable collusion between director and character: Bob Dylan looks straight into the camera and plays his wonderful role of the blasé kid. DON’T LOOK BACK is one of the great films of the 1960s. Perhaps no other film better captured the complex essence of those times: beauty, talent, arrogance, vanity and lyricism. João Moreira Salles