ANDRE S. LABARTHE, DE LA TETE AUX PIEDS

of REBRE Isabelle

FRANCE, 2002, 00:45:00

Production : Les Productions de l'Oeil Sauvage
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Africa, Art, Cinema, Painting

Summary :
In the 60s, the filmmaker André S. Labarthe goes to Los Angeles with a TV crew, and films John Cassavetes, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock… From that time and the series “Cinéma de notre Temps” (Cinema of our Time), he never stopped working.Painters, dancers, writers have been added to the long list of his unique portraits. It is during the preparation, direction and editing of his film on the poet Antonin Artaud that the director, Isabelle Rèbre, tries to draw the portrait of the portraitist…Labarthe lets us enter his world, making appear the pieces of a jigsaw, a game with multiple faces where “I” is someone else.

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