Méditerranée
[Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in ‘unidentified filmic object’). [It] has been described as being ‘like a comet in the sky of French cinema,’ an ‘unknown masterpiece,’ and an ‘unprecedented’ work that refuses interpretation even as it has provoked reams of critical writing. Its rhythmic collage of images – a girl on a gurney, a fisherman, Greek ruins, a Sicilian garden, a Spanish corrida – is accompanied by an abstract commentary written by Sollers, and only the somber lyricism of Antoine Duhamel’s score holds the film’s elements together. At first viewing, you fear that [it] might fly apart into incoherent fragments. Instead, over the course of its 45 minutes it invents its own rules, and you realize you’re watching something like the filmic channeling of an ancient ritual. – Chris Darke, FILM COMMENT
Year: 1963
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Les Films du Losange
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet
Cast:
Crew: Jean-Daniel Pollet (Director), Volker Schlöndorff (Co-Director), Jean-Jacques Rochut (Cinematography), Philippe Sollers (Writer), Barbet Schroeder (Producer), Antoine Duhamel (Music)
Runtime: 44 minutes
Release: Apr 23, 1963
IMDb: 5.70/10 by 32 users
Popularity: 0
Country: France
Language: Français
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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