“Les Fleurs du Mal” has somewhat obscured the fact that Baudelaire was an art critic. It was in this capacity that he judged and celebrated the work of Delacroix, even though he spoke of it as a poet. The work of the great Romantic painter is presented through the eyes of Baudelaire, whose own words … Continued
Arthur Rimbaud’s poem from “Illuminations” has become the pretext for a film in which the resources of cinematographic technique and the illustrations proposed by Laure Garcin attempt to establish correspondences between the poetic images evoked by Arthur Rimbaud’s text and the plastic forms suggested to the imagination. In this poem, which has the privilege of … Continued
At the beginning of the 20th century, scattered around various museums, there were half a dozen canvases with curious nocturnal lighting effects. No one had yet thought of grouping and comparing them, let alone restoring them to their author, an unknown artist whose signature could sometimes be read at the bottom of the paintings. This … Continued
This film deals with the Pont-Aven period in Gauguin’s work and his difficulty in practising his painting due to his lack of money and the disarray of his family situation. The voice-over reads from letters Gauguin wrote to his friends and family, in which he talks about his loneliness, his failing imagination and his passionate … Continued