RABOTEURS (LES)

D'APRES L'OEUVRE DE GUSTAVE CAILLEBOTTE

of COLLARD Cyril

FRANCE, 1988, 00:08:00

Production : LA SEPT, MUSEE D'ORSAY, OPUS 10 19
Collection : Musée d'Orsay
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : History, Impressionism, Memory, Orsay Museum, Naturalism, Painting, Portrait

Summary :
“It is a present-day couple, in an empty room of a Parisian flat. They are talking about love, and especially about viewpoints, truth and illusion. Through a choreography, the three dancers come to freeze into the exact space and positions of the three workers of Gustave Caillebotte’s painting: “Les raboteurs de parquet”, painted in1875. But the work of art is a transition, it is perpetual motion. Opposites are juxtaposed: naturalism’s rawest reality, and the direction of reality in a cinema studio where scene shifters, dancers and actors pass each other. It is 1875, but outside, it is the city. Now.” Cyril Collard.

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