Alberto Giacometti
"I'll never manage to put into a portrait all the power a head contains. The mere fact of experiencing that already demands such willpower and energy..." This confession by Alberto Giacometti, made to Jean Genet, who was his model from 1954 to 1957, underscores the film. Genet's subsequent text, "The Atelier of Alberto Giacometti", admirably illuminates the deeper sense of such a challenge. Whether he was sculpting, painting or drawing, this obsession would never cease to plague this visionary of the 20th century, who divided his explorations between France and his native Switzerland. It required the trust and the great perceptiveness of his friends, and sometimes his models, so that this documentary, made for the centenary of his birth, on October 10, 1901, could reveal for the first time all the originality of Giacometti's artistic itinerary. This in company of Sabine Weiss, Balthus, Jacques Dupin, Roger Montandon, Jean Starobinski, Ernst Scheidegger, Jean Leymarie and Ernest Pignon-Ernest, the only one who didn't know him personally but whose work is an extension of the same musings on the art of drawing, the source of all Giacometti's inspiration.
France - 2000 - 1 h 05 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour
Réalisation
Michel Van Zele
Scénario
Michel Van Zele
Image
Philippe Theaudière
Son
Raphaël Sohier
Montage
Thaddée Bertrand
Musique
Henri Dutilleux
Textes lus par
André Marcon
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Production
Les Films d'Ici,
62 bd Davout,
75020 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4452 2323
Fax : +33 (0)1 4452 2324
E-mail : courrier@lesfilmsdici.fr
Co-Production
ARTE France
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Ventes
ARTE France,
8 rue Marceau,
92785 Issy-les-Moulineaux Cedex 9, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 55 00 73 20
Fax : +33 (0)1 55 00 73 96
E-mail : a-frejacques@paris.arte.fr |
