Introduction
"Georges Braque Ou Le Temps Différent” is a documentary film made by the French director Frédéric Rossif in 1974. The film, which gives a unique view on the life and art of Georges Braque, includes an original score by Vangelis. It is their fifth major collaborative effort, after the documentaries Cantique Des Créatures (1970), Georges Mathieu Ou La Fureur d'Être (1971), Au Pays Des Visages (1972) and L’Apocalypse Des Animaux (1973). Rossif’s documentary was presented at the film festival of Cannes in May 1975.
Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a distinguished French painter mostly known for his invention of Cubism, together with Pablo Picasso. His first influence Fauvism, combined by the work of Paul Cézanne gradually made him to reduce structures to rectangles, or cubes, a technique also adopted by Pablo Picasso. After the First World War, which left Braque severely wounded, he developed a more personal and colorful style. Frédéric Rossif paints a portrait of him, rich in archives, documents, testimonies, and interviews, constantly illuminated by the tormented history of his century. Unfortunately the documentary was never officially released, outside of a rare VHS video in Japan.
Other art-themed documentaries by Frédéric Rossif that Vangelis provided a musical score for include Georges Mathieu Ou La Fureur d'Être (1971), Au Pays Des Visages (1972), Pablo Picasso Peintre (1981) and Morandi (1989).
Details and credits
- Title: Georges Braque Ou Le Temps Différent
- Year: 1974
- Country: France
- Length: 76 minutes
- Release date: 16-04-1975
- Directed by Frédéric Rossif.
- Music by Vangelis Papathanassiou.
- Text by Jean Lescure.
- Dialog by Suzanne Flon and Pierre Vaneck.
- Cinematography: Jean Tournier and Bernard Zitzermann
- Sound engineers: Harrick Maury and Pierre Boucat
- Montage: Geneviève Winding
- Assistent montage: Gisèle Chezeau
- Producer: Michelle Wiart
- Assistent producer: Jean-Charles Cuttoli and Thierry Nahon
- Produced by Télé Hachette and Bayerischer Rundfunk
Media
VHS (AT International ATV-70104) Japan (includes Japanese dialogue).
Synopsis
"Perhaps it is Braque's statement reported here "I am not a revolutionary, I am not looking for exaltation but fervor" that pushed Frédéric Rossif to focus his film on the opposition of a work that takes time, that of creation, put in antagonism with History that devours time with wars, ideological crises, social conflicts. If this postulate is questionable - Cubism is the absolute questioning of art, Braque will fight in the war of 1914, even involuntarily and he will come back half-dead,... - the film provides precious documents and testimonies. L'Estaque, first, where he "invented" Cubism, significant details of his daily life: he loved boxing, cinema, cycling, cars, rigor and speed (see the testimonies of his servant Mariette) singing with his wife. Elements of his work: we follow him in his studio, in his gestures, in his hesitations. Critical remarks: Jean Paulhan and the invention of the first papier collé, Jean Leymarie's commentary on "billiards". In short, a film full of qualities that says a lot about a painter but puts him in a perspective that was perhaps not his own. He simply said: "How could I have been wrong? I didn't know what I wanted."
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