CinemaOSMovie · 1963 · 0h 44m

Méditerranée

Nothing is certain … in this muted evolution.

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[Here] Pollet made a work that is the very definition of what French critics like to call an ovni or ufo (as in ‘unidentified filmic object’). [It] has been described as being ‘like a comet in the sky of French cinema,’ an ‘unknown masterpiece,’ and an ‘unprecedented’ work that refuses interpretation even as it has provoked reams of critical writing. Its rhythmic collage of images – a girl on a gurney, a fisherman, Greek ruins, a Sicilian garden, a Spanish corrida – is accompanied by an abstract commentary written by Sollers, and only the somber lyricism of Antoine Duhamel’s score holds the film’s elements together. At first viewing, you fear that [it] might fly apart into incoherent fragments. Instead, over the course of its 45 minutes it invents its own rules, and you realize you’re watching something like the filmic channeling of an ancient ritual.

Directed byJean-Daniel Pollet

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 44m
Language
FR
Released
April 23, 1963
Studios
Les Films du Losange

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Directed by
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Jean-Daniel Pollet
Written by
Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers
Produced by
Barbet Schroeder
Barbet Schroeder

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