THE SCREEN ILLUSION (2010, Mathieu Amalric, A+30)
This film is adapted from a very old play written by Pierre
Corneille (1606-1684), but it is adapted in such a way that I have rarely
experienced before. The words spoken in the film are as old as in the original
play, but the setting is in the contemporary world, so the incongruities
between the old spoken words and the modern setting are obvious, and becomes
the charm of the film.
I want to screen this film together with EDWARD II (1991, Derek
Jarman), THE FALSE SERVANT (2000, Benoît Jacquot), and THE LIVING WORLD (2003,
Eugène Green), because all these films play with the incongruities between old
texts and contemporary settings.
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