Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)
Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Genre: Fantasy
Director: Jacques Rivette
Starring: Juliet Berto, Bulle Ogier, Jean Babilee, Nicole Garcia
Duration: 121 min.
Rating: 7.7/10

Summary:
The strange battle among a pair of beings from the sphere of the sun or moon, who take the form of women and fight over a young man in bars, hotels, and mystical power-spots.

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Duelle (une quarantaine) is a film directed by Jacques Rivette.  The first in what was intended to be a series of four films titled Scenes de la vie parallèle, telling of goddesses who battle one another for immortality.  Each one was to be a different genre, a fantasy, an adventure, a musical, and a love story.

Duelle is the fantasy film, and is a rather mysterious work reminiscent of a film noir, and its sort of what you'd imagine would happen in David Lynch directed the Highlander.  It is heavy on mood, and light on dialogue verging on being almost silent at times.  Relying on the stylish atmosphere to tell the story.

Interestingly, all the piano music in this film was improvised live on set by Jean Wiener, sometimes directly in the scene and other times just playing along with the action.           

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)

5 comments:

Hermann Rorschach said...

This was pretty awesome.

The Angry Lurker said...

Now this sounds interesting, two goddesses fighting over a man.

Beasts in Human Skin said...

You had me at "if David Lynch directed the Highlander."

Hermann Rorschach said...

This looks pleasantly freaky. With the way current American movie and TV trends are going, your blog will be a valuable asset in the not-too-distant future!

Drackar said...

Gloves on both sides of the wall...

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