Article by: Romilda Boffano
Translation by: Ilaria Rana
“La Sapienza” is the fifth feature film by Eugéne Green. Its preview was screened last summer at the Locarno Film Festival and it opens the section “Onde” of the 32nd Turin Film Festival. This film tells about the meeting between two couples. Alexandre and Alienor Schmidt are married and they are an architect and a psychoanalyst respectively.
Article by: Matteo Merlano
Translation by: Ilaria Rana
A press conference is often a useful instrument for getting rid of any doubts about a film. “La sapienza” is undoubtedly one of those films that must be discussed a lot, whether for its techniques, its narration or the recitative style of its actors. It is a film in which each shot represents a room (in fact the underlying theme is architecture) and each actor talks with themselves without interacting with the others. Each line is pronounced clearly and it represents a struggle rather than a sentence with a meaning. It is a kind of cinema that may not please people.
Una conferenza stampa è strumento utile per fugare i dubbi riguardo ad un film. La Sapienza è indubbiamente una di quelle opere su cui si dovrebbe discutere parecchio, a livello linguistico, narrativo e soprattutto recitativo. Ogni inquadratura è una stanza (è un caso che il filo conduttore sia l’architettura?) e gli attori non interagiscono tra di loro, ma parlano con se stessi. Ogni battuta è ben scandita e assomiglia più a una dichiarazione che ad un elemento di dialogo. Continua la lettura di “LA SAPIENZA” DI EUGÈNE GREEN – CONFERENZA STAMPA