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- Queen of Diamonds is a 1991 American independent drama film directed by Nina Menkes, starring her sister Tinka Menkes.
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May 2, 2023 · Her first film, The Great Sadness of Zohara (1983) is a short (at 38 minutes) and spooky initial exploration of Menkes’ characteristic style and themes. Tinka here plays an Orthodox Jewish woman/punk outsider on a mysterious pilgrimage in Israel, looking to connect to her past in an electric blue buzzcut and club-kid eyeliner.
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It was shot with little money – and no crew – on location in...
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Queen of Diamonds, 1990, had its first showing in January 1991 at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, and in 1992 was shown at the Munich International Film Festival. [2]: 83 Tinka Menkes plays a croupier in a casino in the desert. [7]
Queen of Diamonds is a 1991 [1] American independent [2] drama film directed by Nina Menkes, starring her sister Tinka Menkes.
Nina Menkes’ first full-length feature, Magdalena Viraga, which depicts the inner life of a prostitute who murders her pimp, was made while she was still in film school.
Nina Menkes’s first feature film Magdalena Viraga (1986) is a staple of feminist cinema, an experimental study of modern womanhood and sexuality. The film centers around a prostitute, Ida (Tinka Menkes), who has been imprisoned for the murder of her pimp.
Menkes's first fiction film without Tinka's participation, "Phantom Love" (2007) premiered at Sundance to rave reviews. The film features Marina Shoif and Juliette Marquis in an unsettling examination of an enmeshed family in crisis.
It was shot with little money – and no crew – on location in Israel and North Africa. An early collaboration between Menkes and sister Tinka, the film blends vivid 16mm with eerie sound design (whistling wind, disembodied breathing) to create a mesmeric exploration of isolation and exile.
