Éric Rohmer – Raphaël par le dessin AKA Raphael through drawing (1982)
Voice Over :
Féodor Atkine
Slide show on Raphael’s drawings, produced for the Grand Palais.
A film that begins with: “The Madonnas of the Comberian period still have a very Peruginesque layout” can only belong on this blog, and so much the worse if it is an improbable film without credits and practically without trace. An order that didn’t come through? Notes for a future film? A personal exercise? We don’t really know. In any case, here is our Rohmer in ecstasy in front of Raphael’s sketches, filming them head-on in an attempt to bring out their construction, evolution and beauty. A Jesus on his stomach, then standing up, and our guy is as excited as a flea, which translates into a sepulchral tone of voice (ah this Limousin accent!) and an array of learned words and old-fashioned expressions. It is a scholarly work, which has the merit of lasting only 8 minutes, and which at least gives us the advantage of seeing some paintings by Raphael, ignorant as we are. True to his amateur spirit, Rohmer is content to film his books, in rather random frames. As the film is rather rare and of poor quality, we find ourselves in the heart of the Nouvelle Vague spirit: direct sound and image capture, glorification of craftsmanship, and a mixture of different arts (painting, literature and cinema). The film to watch if you want to know all about Raphael’s pyramidal structures or to be ecstatic about a goldfinch that becomes a book in the hands of an ecstatic Madonna. Or to complete a Rohmer odyssey, too.
Raphael par le dessin (Éric Rohmer, 1982).mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 8 min 47 s
Size: 36.4 MiB
Video
Codec: h264
Resolution: 634x480
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 449 kb/s
BPP: 0.059
Audio
#1: French 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s
https://nitro.download/view/6171C5D5424E962/Raphael_par_le_dessin_(Eric_Rohmer,_1982).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/7810E42752E71F4/Raphael_par_le_dessin.srt
Language(s):French
Subtitles:English
