Emile Degelin Collection - 2-DVD Set ( Si le vent te fait peur (Als je de wind vreest) / Sirènes / Y Manana? / Dock ) ( If the Wind Frightens You )

Emile Degelin Collection - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Si le vent te fait peur (Als je de wind vreest) / Sirènes / Y Manana? / Dock
Alternate Title: If the Wind Frightens You
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Mono )

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

Running Time:
173 min + 53 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

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

Movie filmed in 1954 - 1967 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Emile Degelin

Written By:
Emile Degelin
Jacqueline Harpman

Actors:
Elisabeth Dulac ..... Claude
Guy Lesire ..... Pierre
Henri Billen ..... Playboy
Antinea ..... Elizabeth
André Dandois ..... Bernadette
Gaston Desmedt ..... Nozem
Jacqueline Harpan
Jacqueline Harpman
Bobette Jouret
Anne-Marie La Fère
M. Martin
Paul Roland
M. Thomas
Emile Degelin
Janine Bischops ..... Hostess
Claudia Bremer ..... Mooi meisje
Ketty Van de Poel ..... Caféhoudster
Jacques Dufilho ..... Jeroom
Jan Reussens ..... Boef
Arnold Willems

Synopsis:

If the Wind Frightens You / Si le vent te fait peur (1960)
An ambitious Degelin distinguished himself on several occasions; particularly at Cannes Festival in 1960 where his first feature film received public acclaim. In Si le vent te fait peur siblings Claude and Pierre have an ambiguous relationship, verging on the incestuous - against a background of the then bare, almost lunar, landscape of the Belgian North coast.

Y Manana? (1967)
Quite singular in tone is Y mañana : the lyrical dialogues from Si le vent te fait peur sharply contrast with the deliberately elliptical speech of French comedian Jacques Dufhilo. The audience witnesses his holiday adventures on the Spanish Costa Brava which are reminiscent of burlesque, silent movies and the slapstick world of Jacques Tati.

Dock (1954)
Along with the two feature films, the DVD contains two short films: Dock and Sirènes. In Dock Emile Degelin shoots a floating dock and follows its journey on the Scheldt River. Intrinsically conceptual, Dock somehow announces

Sirènes 1961
Degelin takes a step further here and delivers a musical tale that could qualify as 'filmed music' or 'a musical picture'. Taking its inspiration from James Joyce's Ulysses the film creates a dream- and desert-like seaside world of shipwreck and long-haired mermaids. These seven minutes of pure experimentation were awarded the silver bear at Berlin Festival in 1961.

Extras: two documentaries relating the events that highlighted the filmmaker's career. Emile Degelin retells his film experiences, relives his many encounters and travels. A sincere and intimate portrait.

Si le vent te fait peur / If the Wind Frightens You (1960)
With a literary, stylistic approach and stiff dialogue, this psychological drama by director Emile Degelin addresses the normally taboo subject of incest in a round-about way. Claude and Pierre (Elisabeth Dulac and Guy Lesire) are brother and sister yet it is apparent early on that they are physically attracted to each other. In order to suborn their feelings they enter into relationships with others but nothing they do seems to work - they are always drawn back to their same fatal attraction.

Sirènes (1961)
An audio-visual experiment (Script by James Joyce)

Y Manana? (1967)
The film attempts to express the vision of the world of loneliness of a simple-minded individual.

Dock (1954)
Story of the towing of a floating dock, made in Belgium, to Sweden.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 20 February, 2010.

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