UniPop Cinema Season 15 - Lesson 3: Author (Université Populaire du Cinéma)
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Lesson 3: AUTHOR
Obsession or about-face: the author's motives
By Alain BERGALA (Essayist, director and critic, Paris) | Cine-conference punctuated by film extracts | in French | 60'
Not all motifs are equal when it comes to their use in cinema.
There are motifs with which cinema maintains almost ontological relationships, independently of the singularity of each filmmaker: those which have to do with cinematic representation itself, such as the window, the staircase, female hair, etc.
There are motifs that obsessively and permanently run through the work of certain authors, often among the greatest: Hitchcock, Buñuel, Kiarostami, etc.
There are patterns that an author chooses to work with in a particular film without it being a recurring motif for him.
The "window" motif belongs to all three categories. The window is a vision device present in a multitude of films, whether or not it is treated in a personal way. For some authors, the "window" motif is a specific creative focus and works in most of their films: Renoir, Hitchcock, Lang. Others finally choose, just once, for a particular film, to invest this precise motif in a structural and inspired way. This is the case of All That Heaven Allows by Douglas Sirk, where we will follow the window motif closely.
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Conference in French, 60 minutes duration. Snack and drink interlude available.
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Cinémathèque Luxembourg
17 Place du Théâtre
2613 Luxembourg
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