Documentary - 1957 - Color
Director : Alain RESNAIS
13 minutes
Visa # 20 375
Isan # 0000-0000-C129-0000-J-0000-0000-H
Production : Les Films de la Pléiade
Selection, Venice Film festival, 1958. Mercure d'Or award, Venice Film festival, 1958. Participation, VIII Mannheimer Kultur und Dokumentar Filmwoche, Mannheim 1959.
Narration by Raymond Queneau, read by Pierre Dux.
35 Eastmancolor Dyaliscope.
Music by Georges Delerue and Pierre Barbaud.
The film has been restored in 2K thanks to l’Agence du Court-Métrage and to the support of the CNC
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SUMMARY
How to turn a commissioned industrial film into a lyrical, satirical film masterpiece. When the young Alain Resnais was asked by the Péchiney plastics giant to make a banal short documentary on polystyrene, “that noble, entirely man-made matter,” Resnais sensed a rapport between Alexandrine verse and CinemaScope. What he delivered was a totally surrealist film |
