October in Madrid ( Octobre à Madrid )

October in Madrid (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Octobre à Madrid
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
63 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Marcel Hanoun

Written By:
Roger Hanoun

Actors:
Chonette Laurent
José Meneses
Augustin Reyes
Nadia Werba

Synopsis:

An ambitious film, disarming in its simplicity, Octobre a? Madrid (October in Madrid) is the prototypical 'film about film' that every filmmaker dreams of. That's what Hanoun has filmed here: the life of the filmmaker as a film in the making; the blurring and reversing of the boundaries between desire and work, film and life. -JEAN-LOUIS COMOLLI. Marcel Hanoun's film Octobre a? Madrid (October in Madrid) (1964) is the film that has most haunted and nourished me for over forty years. With Octobre a? Madrid, Hanoun formulated the template for his future artistic practice: the film is dominated by a critical consideration of camerawork and cinematic writing; no attention is given to psychological considerations or dramatic continuity. The filmmaker uses his hesitations, doubts and challenging working conditions as the very material of his work. This is one of the first film-essays of French cinema; it must be seen. -RAPHAE?L BASSAN. Though Hanoun spent much of his career representing mental operations and psychic unrest as the practice of filmmaking, October in Madrid is singularly dense with traces of life outside the mind. It might best be characterized as 'a film about making a film about one's inability to make a film,' yet it nevertheless manages to touch upon something tangible and human amid its playful self-reflexivity. It is a near-masterpiece for anyone who is on intimate terms with the feeling of failure. -DAN SULLIVAN

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 07 March, 2020.