LE CHANT DU STYRÈNE

Alain Resnais


Scen.: Raymond Queneau; M.: Claudine Merlin, Alain Resnais; Mu.: Pierre Barbaud; Ass. R.: Martin-Pierre Hubrecht; Int.: Pierre Dux (voce narrante), Sacha Vierny (l’operaio); Prod.: Pierre Braunberger; 35mm. D.: 19’. Col.

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T. it.: Italian title. T. int.: International title. T. alt.: Alternative title. Sog.: Story. Scen.: Screenplay. F.: Cinematography. M.: Editing. Scgf.: Set Design. Mus.: Music. Int.: Cast. Prod.: Production Company. L.: Length. D.: Running Time. f/s: Frames per second. Bn.: Black e White. Col.: Color. Da: Print source

Film Notes

 

Le Chant du Styrène is fourteen months of work for a film lasting fourteen minutes about plastics. It is also a commentary by Raymond Queneau which makes each image Tashlinesque by introducing the famous dislocation dear to Renoir. And the result is there, in CinemaScope and color […]: some one hundred shots so harmoniously welded to each other that they give the extraordinary feeling of being one long sequence shot, a single, Jupiterian tracking shot whose wonderful phrasing is not without its echoes of the great cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Jean-Luc Godard, in “Cahiers du cinéma”, n. 92, 1959 (translated by Tom Milne, in Godard on Godard)

In short

Director: Alain Resnais

Year: 1958
Country: Francia
Running time: 19'
Film Version

French version

Sound
Sound
Edition
2003
Section
Cinema larger than life: 50 years of CinemaScope

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