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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Maurice Pialat - Les Courts Métrages Turcs AKA The Turkish Chronicles (1964)

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Description: Before he turned to feature filmmaking in 1968 with Naked Childhood, Pialat worked on a series of short films, many of them financed by French television.

Pialat’s six short Turkish films from 1964 - Bosphore (13:29), Byzance (10:52), La corne d’or (12:17), Istanbul (12:48) Maître Galip (10:59) and Pehlivan (12:53) - poetic reflections on the history, character, traditions, buildings and the people of Istanbul, bustling and full of life. The films are sometimes rather random and impressionistic, but have an elegant and painterly quality in the cinematography of Willy Kurant.

Pehlivan: This is a short film about a wrestling competition. We see a lot of people in the crowd both men and women alike appreciating, applauding and cheering wrestlers who have come from all parts of Turkey. A lot of honor is at stake as no body wants to lose. For this reason there is a fierce competition. The wrestling matches are held with loud drums playing in the background. A couple of belly dancers also join when there is a break after a wrestling bout.

La Corne d'or: Corne D'Or juxtaposes a poem by Nerval with a powerful study of Ottoman architecture.

Maître Galip: Maitre Galip is another on Pialat's perceptive studies of children that includes a poem by Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet.

Istanbul: Istanbul takes into the crowded streets and back alleys of a fascinating city divided between continents.

Byzance: Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453.

Bosphore:

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Language: French (no subs)
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Maurice Pialat - L'Enfance-nue AKA Naked-Childhood (1968)

Marking his feature debut, director Maurice Pialat's film chronicles the trials and tribulations of the young Francois, a rural orphan whose unpredictable nature leads him from his foster home into the arms of a benevolent elderly couple.

One of the earth-shaking feature debuts in the history of cinema, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance-nue [Naked-Childhood] provides a perspective on growing-up that rejects both sentimentality and modish cynicism. Its unflinching, but also warmly accommodating, outlook on childhood attracted François Truffaut to take on the role as co-producer of Pialat's film which, ironically, exists as much as a response to Truffaut's own debut The 400 Blows as that film was to the 'cinema of childhood' that came before the New Wave. First-time actor Michel Tarrazon plays the young François, a provincial orphan whose destructive behaviour precipitates his relocation from the home of a long-term foster family to the care of a benevolent elderly couple. In the course of this transition, Pialat's film presents the turbulence of François's unmoored existence, and his explosive reactions to the contradictory emotions it engenders. This is the naked portrait of a soul's and an entire society's dysfunction, before the moment of reconciliation. L'Enfance-nue represents the ideal introduction to the films of Maurice Pialat an artist whose work resides alongside that of Jean Eustache and Philippe Garrel at the summit of the post-New Wave French cinema. One discovers in his pictures a raw and complicated emotional core which, as in the films of John Cassavetes, reveals upon closer examination a remarkably rigorous visual aesthetic, and a facility of direction which lifts both seasoned actors and debutante amateurs to the level of greatness. Coupled here with Pialat's poetic and brilliant early short L'Amour existe [Love Exists, 1960], L'Enfance-nue is the first masterpiece of an artist whose work has had an incalculable influence on contemporary directors as diverse as Bruno Dumont, Olivier Assayas, Michael Haneke, and the Dardenne brothers, among others and whose 2003 passing led Gilles Jacob, president of the Festival de Cannes, to declare: "Pialat is dead and we are all orphaned. French cinema is orphaned." SPECIAL 2-DISC EDITION including: New anamorphic transfer of the film in its original aspect ratio -- New and improved English subtitle translations -- L'AMOUR EXISTE [LOVE EXISTS] (1960) Maurice Pialat's poetic 19-minute film about life in the Paris banlieues -- 2003 video interview with co-screenwriter Arlette Langmann, conducted by former Cahiers du cinéma editor-in-chief, and current director of the Cinémathèque Française, Serge Toubiana -- 32-minute 1973 interview with Maurice Pialat, from the programme Champ contre-champ -- CHOSES VUES AUTOUR DE L'ENFANCE NUE [THINGS SEEN AROUND L'ENFANCE NUE] (1969) 50-minute documentary by Roger Stéphane shot in the course of L'Enfance-nue's production, examining Pialat's film-in-progress and the plight of foster children -- 2005 video interview with Michel Tarrazon, the star of L'Enfance-nue -- The film's original trailer, along with trailers for other Maurice Pialat films to be released by The Masters of Cinema Series --

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Language: French (English & Chinese .idx/subs)
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Maurice Pialat - Le Garçu (1995)

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From Senses of Cinema:
Within an apparently fragmentary and digressive form, Le Garçu is unified by one essential question: what creates our attachments to others? The film centers on the intermixing of ties between people who demonstrate these enigmatic but indestructible attachments, painful, unbearable or irritating as they often are. Gérard, first of all (whom one recognizes as Pialat's alter-ego, giving the film the sense of a subtle self-portrait) appears to struggle with ties of all sorts – loving ties, paternal ties, filial, friendly, sexual, etc. – but doesn't quite know how to situate himself in relation to each one. Thus, after he and Sophie separate, he returns to her, again and again, to the point of intrusion (at one point surprising her with an enormous toy truck he brings in the middle of the night). It's not clear if his motive is to be close to his son, or because he can't stand the idea of Sophie having a new lover, Jeannot (Dominique Rocheteau). As for Sophie, she suffers from the abominable way in which Gérard treats her, but at the same time cultivates regret at not having been loved by him the way Jeannot loves her: with tenderness, being present for her and her son.

The most important words in this film are thus those that Gérard throws at Sophie a moment before her tears in the restaurant: “Your attachment to my father … you love the families of others because you didn't have any grandparents,” he reproaches her, but not without concluding, “Grandparents are important … when you don't have them, you miss them.” Cast in doubt, but nonetheless recognized as a necessity, the affectionate tie that Sophie has woven with Gérard's father – the eponymous Garçu – becomes the symbol of all the infinitely problematic ties that the characters of this film carry, like hidden wounds, and which sometimes come to light.