“My eyes are imprisoned/ Weeping with great longing”. Soèdade (saudade) — “longing” or “yearning” — is a Portuguese word that does not have a precise translation in English. It has been described as a “…vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist…”

Saudade.2012.Jean-Claude.Rousseau.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/C049DD8737AF10F/Saudade.2012.Jean-Claude.Rousseau.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):French, Portuguese (just a few words)
Subtitles:None

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In the solitude of his apartment, Rousseau reads shorts excerpts from Racine’s Bérénice, images of separation; he films in a café, musicians in the street, a dance, domestic intimacy, in a self-portrait that reflects the contradiction between desires and time. “For a long time I have wanted to try and see if I could create a drama with the simplicity of action which the Ancients so favoured. There are those who believe that this very simplicity is a sign of a lack of inventiveness. They do not consider that, on the contrary, all invention is to create something out of nothing.” (Racine, preface to Bérénice, 1670.)

De.son.appartement.2007.Jean-Claude Rousseau.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/2D9C7242F7F2FB1/De.son.appartement.2007.Jean-Claude_Rousseau.DVDRip.DD2.0.x264.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Jean-Claude Rousseau is a filmmaker who believes in the natural power of images. The rigid compositions create something like a pure state, which constantly changes during the period of its viewing – like an empty and simultaneously detail-packed field. During this period the viewer is challenged to find and occupy his own position, to find his perspective in a similar way the filmmaker has found his in several places. Festival combines places the artist has visited during the last few years. Jean-Claude Rousseau’s films not only make beautiful discoveries, they are beautiful discoveries.

Festival.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/29C9381D24564A3/Festival.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/F73595D155762BC/Festival.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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“He came to read. He opened two or three books; by historians and poets. But he read for barely ten minutes, and then gave up.” C. Cavafy

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A postcard, a souvenir from Athens: sitting on a comfortable rock, a young man is bent over in his thoughts, then straightens up a little to project them on to the landscape; in the background, a ruin; between the two, a few tiny passers-by, two or three stray dogs that break into the frame; and in the air, a record with worn-out grooves, a popular Greek song in which we make out the words: “postcard”, “souvenir from Athens”. Are the films of Jean-Claude Rousseau postcards? Yes, basically: a certain eternity in the stark present of an image, brought back from a place the eye has visited. No, not at all: in the prison of its frame, the postcard image has no continuity, no relationship, except for the misleading link with the words that constitute its verso. Here, as always in Rousseau’s work, the image does not exist without a relationship, first to itself as it is multiplied by the black screens that engulf it several times, as in the very slow blinking of an eye. Emerging every time from this abyss and saving the spectator who had fallen in with it, the image is not quite the same, nor totally different –something like: a souvenir of itself. And what about the very last image, as in truth there are two here (that is: an infinity plus one)? A real phantom, the last one, brought out of a little dust by the record’s silent grooves. – Jérôme Momcilovic

Souvenir d'Athènes (Jean-Claude Rousseau, 2023).mkv

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Language(s):No dialogue
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PROPOSITIONS
Selected examples of a New Cinema

The continuing demand for high standards is what sets Rouseau’s work apart. What makes this film distinctive is the way Rousseau explicitly returns to the source of his creative inspiration. So here he is at home reciting «Bérénice» to himself, whilst going about his household chores. It verges on the comical: There are repeated shots of him obstinately trying to turn off a dripping tap, or the jubilant close up of bare feet carried away in performing a dance step or two. Combining art with life in such a way, that nothing is compartmentalised, nothing lost – that is the goal. (Jean-Pierre Rehm)

658MB | 1h 08m | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/E82E98983279EE6/Jean-Claude_Rousseau_-_De_son_appartement.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

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Un Monde Flottant (2020)

Between rain and clearer spells, in the footsteps of Ozu in today’s Japan, people met, wordless encounters… Also some seismic events, a trembling of the ground which does not interrupt the course of the film. And just for the sake of a story: a forgotten umbrella in a hotel room.

871MB | 56m 16s | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/796469D418B2EC7/Un.Monde.Flottant.2020.720p.WEB.x264-gooz.mkv

Language(s):None
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Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre
1983, 45 min, super-8

“Through the window, we cannot distinguish the scene: a street, a canal, a view of Delft, perhaps a port. We are on the inside, with the light pouring in. The maps on the wall are bigger than the paintings, yet we do not know where we are. The woman stands at the window reading a letter. She loses track of location as she reads. She could be anywhere, at any random point on the map. Outside. Through the window, we cannot distinguish the scene: a street, a canal, a view of Delft, perhaps a port. We are on the inside…”(Jean-Claude Rousseau)

1.65GB | 47m 46s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/98A085E3AF52AB8/Jean-Claude_Rousseau_-_Jeune_femme_a_sa_fenetre_lisant_une_lettre_(1983)_1080p.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, Italian, Spanish

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