Remembrance of Things to Come

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The latest "cine-essay" of Chris Marker is dense and demanding, a splendid reminder that his nimble, capacious mind has lost none of its agility, poetry, and power. Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, focusing on the two decades between 1935 and 1955, the film leaps and backtracks, Marker-style, from ... subject to subject, from a family portrait of Bellon and her two daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the latter co-authored the film), to a wide-ranging history of surrealism, of the city of Paris, of French cinema and the birth of the cin?math?que, of Europe, the National Front, the Second World War and Spanish Civil War, and postwar politics and culture.
  • Starring: Pierre Arditi
  • Directed by: Chris Marker
  • Runtime: 42 minutes
  • Studio: Icarus Films
 
  
 
 

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Synopsis: The latest "cine-essay" of Chris Marker is dense and demanding, a splendid reminder that his nimble, capacious mind has lost none of its agility, poetry, and power. Ostensibly a portrait of photographer Denise Bellon, focusing on the two decades between 1935 and 1955, the film leaps and backtracks, Marker-style, from subject to subject, from a family portrait of Bellon and her two daughters, Loleh and Yannick (the latter co-authored the film), to a wide-ranging history of surrealism, of the city of Paris, of French cinema and the birth of the cin?math?que, of Europe, the National Front, the Second World War and Spanish Civil War, and postwar politics and culture.
Starring: Pierre Arditi
Directed by: Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker
Genre: Documentary, Short
Runtime: 42 minutes
Studio: Icarus Films
ASIN: B002G7MBR0 (Rental) and B002G7MBS4 (Purchase)
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  • Production Company: Les Films de l'Equinoxe
  • Also Known As: Remembrance of Things to Come
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bellon & Marker, October 5, 2008
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This review is from: Remembrance of Things to Come (DVD)
Remembrance of Things to Come is a typical Chris Marker film when it is as it should be. Poetic, a flow of images and very re-watchable. This film was made together with Yannick Bellon, daughter of photographer Denise Bellon (1902-1999). The film consists of Bellon's pictures from the midwar period, starting with the surrealist exhibition in Paris 1937. The photos are striking - some macabre (war casualties) and some beautiful. This period seems like a strange land today, but at the same time many things defining our time was concieved then.
The flow of still pictures, the narrator track and the short length (42 minutes) reminds of La Jetee in style, but this is a documentary rather than fiction. As La Jetee and as Sans Soleil, Remembrance of Things to Come is very poetic and easy to watch and listen to, almost hypnotic. If you like Chris Marker's La Jetee and/or La Soleil, you will probably like this.

There is only one narrator track in english (there must have been a french original, as on Criterions La Jetee disc). There is one extra material: a 26 minutes documentary by Bellon from 1950.
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