Raphaël Bassan
Le Critique Filmeur
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Add rightsFormat DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm, HD
Year 1992-2021
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Raphaël Bassan
Author(s) Raphaël Bassan, Julie Savelli
Subtitles French
Booklet 44 pages (French, English)
Running time 122 min
Films
LE DÉPART D'EURYDICE (1969-2016) 11'
PRÉTEXTES (1971-2016) 13'
LUCY ET MIROIR (2003-2005 / 45'
LES DEUX LUCY by Michel Amarger & Frédérique Devaux (2003) 18'
SIGNATURE AU CINÉ REFLET by Viviane Vagh (2014) 35'
Description
"Thus this Christ on the cross, crudely sculpted, nonetheless creates unease. Just as the possessed gestures of this guru become disturbing through their excessiveness. Doesn't this doll he dismembers conceal, beneath its derisory airs, real curses? For myths await their reenactment to cast us into destiny."
— Stéphane de Mesnildot, on Le Départ d'Eurydice (2003)
"At the origin of Prétextes, screen tests for a feature film never made. In these fragments, torn from the inner life of a couple, it's not psychology that defines man and woman, but the arrangement of primitive symbols, of archetypes."
— Stéphane de Mesnildot, on Prétextes (2003)
"Fans of classical narrative, move along. Lucy en Miroir speaks to us of attraction and vertigo, of spleen and fear, of happiness and solitude. It's neither a stylistic exercise nor a theoretical essay, nor a visual poem. It's, quite simply, a necessary film."
— Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, on Lucy en miroir (2005)