Young Autant-Lara’s (1901-2000) avant-garde debut, made a decade before his first feature and two decades before his breakthrough. It features his mother, who was a famous actress, as well as Antonin Artaud, who was a friend of the family.
The films circulates around a triangular love drama with a lot of faux avant-garde effects: filming only hands and feet, rotating camera, dream sequences expressing the tensions between the protagonists etc. etc. Given that this was made many years before Un chien andalou and most of the titles that can be found in Kino’s box sets, this was pretty cutting edge in 1923.

DVD Source: region 0, DVD5
DVD Format: NTSC
22 minutes.
DVD Audio: None
Program: Panasonic camera screener.
Menus: None
Video: Untouched
Audio: None
DVD extras: None

https://nitro.download/view/C09C26684DDF271/Fait_divers.rar

Language:One French pronoun
Subtitles:None

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