Le Monde de Paul Delvaux (1946)

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   criscoJovan

   Amos Vogel's Film as a Subversive Art:

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   For once, a film about a painter that does not show a numbing procession of works, but rather enters his universe, as the camera glides uninterruptedly and dream-like, from painting to painting, their frames and identities obliterated. Neither lecture nor spectacle, but an experience, this is a curious, disturbing journey through the fantastic world of the celebrated Belgian surrealist, in which luxuriant, icy female nudes and fully- dressed, meek men co-exist in mysterious landscapes. The score by Andre Souris and a surrealist poem written and spoken by Paul Eluard further contribute to an unsettling, magical experience. Storck's outstanding work extends from early radical documentaries to later surrealist films.

   10 years 5 months ago
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   samlowery

   The poem recited is Eluard's Exil, and as near as I can tell they take a couple liberties with it. Below is the poem as it was originally published in the 1939 collection Donner à voir.
   
   "Parmi les bijoux les palais des campagnes
   Pour diminuer le ciel
   De grandes femmes immobiles
   Les jours résistants de l'été
   Pleurer pour voir venir ces femmes
   Régner sur la mort rêver sur la terre
   Elles ni vides ni stériles
   Mais sans hardiesse
   Et leurs seins baignant lure miroir
   Œil nu dans la clairière de l’attente
   Elles plus tranquilles et plus belles d’être semblables
   Loin de l'odeur destructrice des fleurs
   Loin de la forme explosive des fruits
   Loin des gestes utiles les timides
   Livrées à leur destin ne rien connaître qu’elles-mêmes." 9 years 2 months ago
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   fogver

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvHs8OQF4w 1 month 1 week ago

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