Virgil Vernier – Pandore (2010)

Quote:
Started with Flics and then Commissariat, Virgil Vernier continues here his exploration of our passions. Manifest of his obstinacy of observer and moralist, the exergue here, borrowed from La Bruyère: “The city is divided into various societies, which are like so many small republics, which have their laws, their uses, their jargon, and their words to laugh.” To the program of this sentence follows a fixed frame: outside night, entrance of a nightclub in Paris. A “physiognomist” is at work. He sorts, withdraws behind the silence of the verdict, sometimes argues, distributes, always generous, sentences. God is not dead, God is him. Here is a small, very small, theater of passions. The stake, derisory, decisive: in or out. From where? From the paradise of an evening. On this threshold, the camera also persists and records the parade of requests. Each one uses his own strategy to convince the almighty: pose, snobbery, humor, pettiness, spite, aggressiveness, wounded pride. As in a famous and similar sequence in Scorsese’s After Hours, one is reminded of Kafka, and similarly reminded of his comedy, that is to say, of his real violence, descriptive, merciless, directly in contact with the arbitrariness of the application of the law. Like the bas-reliefs around the edges of certain ancient sarcophagi, “Pandora” lets a small crowd of night owls elbow each other in search of the election. (Nicolas Féodoroff, FIDMarseille 2010)

Pandore - Virgil Vernier.mkv

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Language(s):French
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