Bad Yantra Cruel Mantra

In Bad Yantra Cruel Mantra, Meghana Bisineer takes a bodily gesture from Claire Denis’s 1999 feature Beau Travail – unpacking, reworking and repeating it to find intimacy and violence in a single touch. The film’s close study of this one scene pre-empts a transcendental departure, finding mirrors in lichen, shadows, stains.