Le Grand Depart 1973

After a meal like many others: a couple at the empty look in front of a television screen, immersed in a digestion blissful; and then, breaking with the sudden arrival and quick a young man, and his escape by motorbike. With him, the director leads us into a “festival in reverse”; the logical order is reversed; the characters change their identity; they borrow their masks in turn to animal (cat Cain), heroes of mythology (Mr. Kind), to famous paintings. The allusions to the painting are numerous: Leonardo da Vinci, Millet, Delacroix, and even contemporary: Art, and, of course, Martial Raysse (the director is a painter). The colours take those negatives to a photo: the roses blotter turning suddenly to the green, and the purple faded to blue; the categories, determinations, common vanish into the visual effects are fluid and unexpected. These mysterious creatures speak of the “great departure” and seek the “paradise”.

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Le Grand Depart


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