Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

6.1(9 votes)
December 7, 1977
11m
DramaComedy

Overview

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.

Director

Danièle Huillet

Writers

Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet

Status

Released

Original Language

FR

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