L'Humanite

[Dave Monroe]

I was lucky enough to see L'Humanite (dir. Bruno
Dumont, 1999) on the big screen recently.  A film I
needed to be trapped with, given my otherwise teevee
(though not quite video game) attention span.  Again,
that languid pacing, albeit even more so, punctuated
by that (Lacanian/Zizekian?) abject Real.  Much of the
film is simply star Emmanuel Schotte's face.  Note
references to Marcel Duchamp's Etant Donnes and
Gustave Courbet's L'Origine du monde ...

But I'm hip to that Chris Marker tip, although I've
only been lucky enough to see an actual print of La
Jetee so far (it is on video, have it, plus the Zone
Books "photo-roman").  But GW often put in mind of GR,
Pynchon, the wasteland (note esp. the bulldozer scene,
very strange, very haunting, and I was seriously
disturbed by what came immediately before ...), the
preterite, the fantastic, America, et al.  Keep
storyboarding, running rushes in my internal cinema
...

--- John Bailey <johnbonbailey at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I haven't heard of this film, but a quick search on
> the Internet Movie 
> Database reveals that I wrote a summary...wait a
> minute! It wasn't me, but 
> jhailey at hotmail.com. Mr/Ms Hailey, I salute you!
> 
> And Dave (if I may be so informal) your reference to
> Chris Marker reminds me 
> to recommend his documentaries Sans Soleil (very
> interesting), and more 
> relevant to Pynchon, Level 5, which could easily
> have been inspired by an 
> extended reading of Gravity's Rainbow. Veeeeery
> difficult film which 
> virtually forces the viewer to re-evaluate
> previously held notions of 'the 
> documentary'.
> 
> John Bailey

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