Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.
Crew
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Jean-Marie Straub
Director
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Jean-Marie Straub
Editor
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Jean-Marie Straub
Screenplay
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Danièle Huillet
Director
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Danièle Huillet
Editor
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Danièle Huillet
Screenplay
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Louis Hochet
Sound Mixer
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Dominique Chapuis
Director of Photography
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William Lubtchansky
Director of Photography
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Stéphane Mallarmé
Author
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Alain Donavy
Sound Recordist
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