Children and Ruins - Alain Mazars Collection ( Des enfants et des ruines / Au-delà du souvenir / Rodamorfosis ) ( Children and ruins / Beyond Memory / Rodamorfosis )

Children and Ruins - Alain Mazars Collection (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Des enfants et des ruines / Au-delà du souvenir / Rodamorfosis
Alternate Title: Children and ruins / Beyond Memory / Rodamorfosis
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

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

Running Time:
228 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1984-2021 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Alain Mazars

Actors:
N.T. Binh
Ke Long Shi

Synopsis:

Children and ruins: It is an experimental film where the filmmaker questions the desire of a film viewer to narrate. This film revives the spirit of research that began with silent cinema, with musical compositions as essential as the dialogue in a feature-length talking film. The ruins of the title visually represent an aspiration to rebuild another world from the old. Finally, the film questions the possibility of a child proceeding to this reconstruction from a narrative where the elusive meaning of everything around him is to be reinvented. Beyond Memory: In 1967, in the middle of the Chinese cultural revolution, an opera singer is sent to the other side of the country to be 're-educated'. He leaves behind his young pregnant wife. Seven years later, rehabilitated, he is allowed to return to his native village. He will not find his wife, who has since died. And one thought obsesses him: How to recognize his child, whom he has never seen, how to go to meet him? Rodamorfosis: 'Shot in Madrid, in a carnival. The subject of the film is suggested by the spanish title. From 'roda', I kept 2 connected meanings : the circular motion and movie shooting. As for 'Morfosis', it is linked to the idea of metamorphosis. With the whole word, I wanted to suggest a metamorphosis of reality (places and characters) in a motion where everything is going round circles : what is on camera, camera itself and film inside.'

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 21 March, 2025.