[Frameworks] Drama films and the Avant-Garde

[John Matturri]

Not so sure about the reading that's been given of Irma Vep: you can 
also read the final sequence as suggesting that this way in fact would 
be a logical way of re-opening up French cinema, though one that would 
certainly be perceived as mad by the producers who replace the Leaud 
character with a much more conventional director. The film explores all 
sorts of attitudes and alternatives to what film could be / become 
without I think taking a stable position on any of them.

j

On 1/25/11 2:27 PM, Jim Flannery wrote:
> Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 6:53:06 AM, one wrote:
>
>> Indeed. This is pretty much the only time you see experimental techniques
>> employed in most mainstream cinema: to depict 'altered states' such as psychosis
>> etc. It's quite sad really.
> Well, not so much in _The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz_ ... but not
> the greatest framing there either.
>