Synopsis(from All Movie Guide):
Living a dismal life taking care of his uncommunicative and nearly blind father, Vincent (Fabrice Luchini), a sculptor, tries to make life better for himself but fails for a variety of reasons.

DVD Notes
“Le cinéaste Pierre Zucca demeure méconnu, malgré la grande singularité de sa brève oeuvre (4 films). Admiré par Rohmer, découvreur de Fabrice Luchini, ami de nombreuses personnalités du cinéma, cet ancien photographe de plateau a inventé un univers où le quotidien se teinte d’étrange et d’érotisme, où fantasme rime avec secret. Dès son premier film Vincent mit l’âne dans un pré (et s’en vint dans l’autre), il réunit une palette incroyable d’artiste (Michel Bouquet, Bernadette Lafont et donc Luchini pour sa première apparition), puis Frédéric Miterrand, Philippe Leotard, Victoria Abril, ou encore Claude Chabrol, tous convaincus par le charme inédit de l’homme et de ses oeuvres. Très lié à l’oeuvre de Pierre Klossowski, il adapte son livre La Révocation de l’édit de Nantes dans son film Roberte, plongée baroque dans la psychée perturbée d’une femme bourgeoise. Redécouvrir aujourd’hui les films de Pierre Zucca est une expérience importante. Aussi ancrés dans la fin des années 1970 que parfaitement intemporel, ces petits bijoux élégants et précieux valent largement le détour”.

1.17GB | 1h 42mn | 640×400 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/A187150569B553D/vincent_mit_l’ane.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

The post Pierre Zucca – Vincent mit l’âne dans un pré (et s’en vint dans l’autre) (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
Unlike the erotic surrealism mastery of his peer-filmmakers such as Buñuel, Robbe-Grillet and even Raúl Ruiz, Pierre Zucca in his Roberte (adapted from Pierre Klossowski’s novel) tends mostly toward a “non-professionalism” and aesthetical economy. Where the enchanting force of his work is driven by an atmospheric sense of strangeness and oddity, an ambient surreality: a complex simplicity, when precisely less is more!

Roberte takes place amid the illusionary world of mirrors, theatrical backdrops and mysterious urban labyrinths (Rivettean) which all perfectly reflect and encompass the vanity and anxious bewilderment of her eponymous character’s psychological/mental space and the masculine social bourgeoisie she’s entangled within – which can also provoke apparent resemblance with Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

Roberte’s sexual nervous breakdown is split between various men, like her body which is chopped off of its wholeness as Zucca applies many fragmented/detached shots of the hands and legs to depict and convey this sense of corpo-mental shattered-ness. That’s why the voyeuristic aspect of the film is never delivered as a complete uninterrupted totally, and that’s where Zucca transcends the mere voyeurism to a higher level of imaginative imperfection – a liberated eroticism rather a manipulative pornography. Remember how the film by each step and twist is led to even lose its sound and color at the end, closing with a graphical design of a keyhole in the credits.

Pascal Bonitzer remarkably mentions this aspect of Zucca’s work, when he accurately writes: In Roberte, like all her postures and adventures, what’s evoked is a “crime without violence” and a pornography without obscenity (Cahiers du Cinéma; No. 299, April 1979). So also I would like to add, a voyeurism without gaze.

2.75GB | 1 h 38 min | 915×572 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/06B7E15DC2C07D4/Roberte.1979.DVDRip.AC3.x264-LAA.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English

The post Pierre Zucca – Roberte (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.