Hi Jit.
Are you ok?
This summer I made a trip with a friend from Barcelona back to Berlin (where I regularly live since 2004).
We did our trip in a caravan, like hippies, through France and Germany (and also Czech Republic, but just 2 days).
We were stopping at small villages, Collioure, Cahors, Blois, Tours, Saint Cyr la Poppie, the Black Forest and the Constanza Lake... Very beautiful.
In a small bookshop in Blois I found by chance a book written by Anne Wiazemsky. It costed only one euro (it was a second hand shop). Its title was (and is) JEUNE FILLE.
It´s a remembrance of the shooting of AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, film where she played the main role, Marie.
I devoured the book, not only because I love her (she was married to Godard, who fell in love with her after watching AU HASARD BALTHAZAR; she played in lots of Godard movies in the 70s, but also in Pasolini´s TEOREMA and in PORCILE; and also in another favourite of mine: Garrel´s L´ENFANT SECRET)... not only because I love her, but also because I´m very curious when it comes to a director´s methods. Especially in the case of Bresson, who is so unique.
The book offers a very close look to Bresson´s way of working, to his perfectionism, to his cruelty sometimes (he was tyrannic with Pierre Klossowski, who obeyed like a patient lamb; also with the "good guy" in love with Marie (Pierre?); he was in reality the brother of the actress who plays Jeanne in PICKPOCKET, and he was about to give up and go back home, so exhausted he was of Bresson´s ways).
Anne Wiazemsky also writes about Bresson´s erotical approaches; she suggests that he was attracted to young girls, being himself older than 60 ( I think); the truth is that all his actresses had a very special beauty. And his actors.
In general, I think he got always the sexiest casts!!
The book JEUNE FILLE is full of enjoyable anecdotes.
I was amazed that the original music for the film was Debussy´s DES PAS SUR LA NEIGE and not the Schubert Sonata. Bresson decided during the shooting not to put the Debussy.
But I adore since I was a youngster DES PAS SUR LA NEIGE, much before I knew who Bresson was.
And now this music is also the music that was thought for AU HASARD BALTHAZAR, but in the last minute, for unknown reasons, fell into silence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFKfuanIfdU
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I think this music would have fit very well with Bresson's films, because I think it is very minimal and sad. Or maybe Bresson didn't want to use it, because he doesn't want the music to guide the audience to feel sad.
ResponderEliminarI don't know anything about Debussy, but I think it is interesting that his music is used in another feel-bad film: ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (Shunji Iwai).
I just wrote something inspired by your post here. :-)
ResponderEliminarhttp://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2010/01/for-raul-1-marie-jose-nat.html