Inhalte(1)
This astonishingly beautiful black-and-white silent film was shot in the Black Forest of Germany with a cast of three (Bernadette Lafont, Laurent Terzieff, and Stanislas Robiolle), and is a primal response to the events of May '68 as they were still unfolding. Lafont synopsized the film perfectly: "A couple and their child flee in the face of an unknown but still considerable menace... In a desolate landscape, full of humidity and humiliation, we see the weakest of beings stage his revolt: a child." According to the cinematographer Michel Fournier, Garrel allowed him "the greatest liberty to improvise and to invent, with voluntarily minimal lighting in order to stimulate our imagination, and an extremely sensitive film stock in order to capture the faintest glimmers or the strongest apparitions." (New York Film Festival)
(mehr)Kritiken (1)
A black-and-white film with the absence of any soundtrack that follows the relationship between a man and a woman and their relationship with their child. The film is mainly a logically inconsistent series of visual expressions consisting of a wordless exploration of interactions between these three beings. The main role (mostly) belongs to the child, which, in my opinion, does not primarily represent itself as the third equal and independent character, but rather as a metaphor, specifically a metaphor for their parents' (current) love and human relationship. The child thus becomes the "Revelator," which, through its factual presence on the screen, represents the otherwise ungraspable inner relationship between two people. What another film would have to "reveal" with words, another character reveals here - moreover, symbolically very fittingly chosen - because what could be a better litmus test for the relationship between a man and a woman than their only truly shared thing (which is not even a thing, but the most vulnerable human being)?
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