A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.
Jean-Marie Straub
Director
Danièle Huillet
Director
Helmut Färber
(Re)citer
Michel Delahaye
(Re)citer
Georges Goldfayn
(Re)citer
Danièle Huillet
(Re)citer
Manfred Blank
(Re)citer
Marilù Parolini
(Re)citer
Aksar Khaled
(Re)citer
Andrea Spingler
(Re)citer
Dominique Villain
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