Festival International du Film d'Aubagne

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Movie-concert (Closing night)

"Musique à l’image"

Musical improvisation of six young composers on short films by two Masters : René Clair and Max Linder. Running time 60 minutes.

In this movie-concert, jazzman Raphaël Imbert, film maker and musician Philippe Carrese and two silent short films from the 20’s will be united: L’entr’acte by René Clair, and Be my wife by Max Linder.
This unseen night is the end result of the Improvisation and Musical Composition Workshops to which six young composers have taken part, led by composer, sax player Raphaël Imbert and film maker Philippe Carrese.
Thus, together, they will create an original, spontaneous and creative work serving the images of two of the greatest French silent film makers: René Clair (L’entr’acte) about whom Henri Langlois used to say : “In the whole world, in the last twety-five years, one man only stands for the French cinema: René Clair. Even better, he sums up in the eyes of the world not only our cinema, but the very spirit of our nation; he is seen as the successor of both Feydeau and Molière,” and Max Linder, about whom Louis Delluc used to say : “Max Linder is Cinema, like the Cinema.”


Movies screened



Be my wife

Max Linder

USA - 1921 - Beta Sp - 20’ - Fiction

 

Max and Mary are in love, but Mary's Aunt Agatha dislikes Max, and instead prefers the unappealing Simon. So Max has to resort to a series of ruses to try to get Simon out of the way, and to be able to spend time with Mary. Finally, Max comes up with a scheme that might allow him to prove to Aunt Agatha that he is more worthy than Simon.

 

Scénario Max Linder Image Charles Van Enger Interprètes Max Linder, Thelma Percy, Alta Allen & Ralph Mc Cullough

 

Productions Distribution Goldwyn Distributing Company, Kino Video & Zircon Video

 

Distribution Lobster films - 13 rue Lacharrière - 75011 Paris - Tel + 33 (0)1 43 38 69 69 - E.mail eric@lobsterfilms.com

L’entr'acte

René Clair

Français - 1924 - Beta Sp - 22’ - Fiction

 

An absolute surrealistic movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a surrelistic chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin disapear.

 

Scénario Francis Picabia & René Clair Image Jimmy Berliet Musique originale Henri Sauguet & Erik Satie Interprètes Erik Satie, Francis Picabia, Man Ray & Marcel Duchamp

 

Production Rolf de Maré

 

Distribution Pathé 10 Rue Lincoln 75008 Paris - Tel + 33 (0)1 40 76 91 00