A documentary on the most beautifil and most tragic aspects of a family from the country.
In a society that measures a human being’s value by productivity, few questions could be more subversive than those concerning the value of people who aren’t working. Elek explores this through a labourer forced into retirement and his young replacement, a peasant in an industrial school.
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Sur une photo de Maria Callas, une publicité avec la primadonna et une reproduction de la Mona Lisa de Vinci agrandies jusqu'à l'abstraction, Werner Schroeter monte des airs de Cherubini, Verdi et Donizetti avec des tubes de Caterina Valente et fait chanter la Callas en duo avec elle-même en un collage répétitif organisant la rencontre du sublime et du trivial, qui annonce son ...
It's a kind of whirlwind of vital, active illusion. Necessary illusion or not, depending if man masters it or succumbs to it. The film does not take a position for or against illusion, it contents itself with depicting its filmic appearances. Illusion which, in the film, raises up the content and the form. I try to give to the film its true communicative value straight-on, beyo...