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The Vertical Smile + Three portraits of a non-existing bird

Three portraits of a non-existing bird

(Trois portraits d'un oiseau qui n'existe pas)

Robert Lapoujade

  • 1963
  • France
  • Animation
  • 7mn
Brand new master
In this animated painting of Claude Aveline’s poetry, the dialogue between the arts has never seemed more obvious, their harmony revealing their primal poetic essence.
Carried by Pierre Bayle’s music, this magical spectacle, in turn abstract and figurative, rallies and revives all of our senses.

Credits

  • Screenplay : Robert Lapoujade (from a poem by Claude Aveline)
  • Photography : Robert Lapoujade
  • Editing : Robert Lapoujade
  • Music by : François Bayle
  • Production : Roger Leenhardt

The Vertical Smile

(Le Sourire vertical)

Robert Lapoujade

  • 1973
  • France
  • Anarchist poetic aberration
  • 1h50mn
  • Color
Exclusive new master
A congressman and historian, left by his wife, locks himself in his office and lets his imagination roam free, blending plunges into intimacy and historical fantasies.
In this adaptation of his own novel, Robert Lapoujade pushes the experimental nature of his previous feature film even further, as he does its rebellious impertinence and eclectic chaos. In what other movie can you see Joan of Arc’s trial, SM erotica, live representations of Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings, and a one eyed Jean-Pierre Mocky all sharing the screen? Often hilarious, always blasphemous, rebel Lapoujade deconstructs to better convey his century: he also reveals its true philosophical substance, launching into a raging satire against the pretensions of historians. For the filmmaker, the last word belongs to Socrates: “I know that I know nothing.”

Credits

  • With : Françoise Brion, François Perrot, Henri Serre, Olivier Hussenot, Jean-Pierre Mocky...
  • Screenplay : Robert Lapoujade
  • Photography : Jean-Jacques Renon, Renan Pollès
  • Editing : Nicole Grob
  • Music by : Patrice Sciortino
  • Production : René Thévenet

Screenings

04/09 • 14h30 • Screen 100
Session presented by Christine Lapoujade
Session in partnership with the CNC
In collaboration with Les films René Château

11/09 • 21h15 • Screen 100
Session presented by Christine Lapoujade
Session in partnership with the CNC
In collaboration with Les films René Château