Robert Kramer
Guns (vol. 4)
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Original format 35mm
Year 1980-1983
Language(s) English, French
Artist(s) Robert Kramer
Sous-titres français, anglais, allemand, italien
Livret 56 pages (français, anglais)
Running time 173 min
Films
GUNS (1980) 95'
NAISSANCE (1981) 42'
LAPEUR (1983) 6'
Description
After the political fresco composed by his American films and completed with Milestones (1975), then a documentary on the Carnation Revolution, Scenes from the Class Stuggle in Portugal (1977), Robert Kramer settled in France. There he continued his work with Guns, a labyrinthine feature film echoing the paranoid Hollywood fictions of the 70s, which continues his exploration of the militant psyche while experimenting with narrative.
"There were two distinct lines of reality in Guns. One concerned the vast world. Tony (Patrick Bauchau), the journalist, speaks at one point of "a story with neither head nor tail". There is no longer any way to penetrate this big world. The other line of reality is our direct and personal experience, that is here Margot (Juliet Berto) who decides to accompany her mother toward death, and everything that goes with that choice. I was addressing the decline of a way of talking about things."
— Robert Kramer