Empty Quarter (Une Femme en Afrique) de Raymond Depardon : l’image d’une voix off
For his first fiction feature, Raymond Depardon chooses a radical device to direct the passionate love of a man for a woman: never see him never hear him; he is only present thanks to his voice-over and the camera-glances of this woman. Kind of a shape of a subjective point of view is anchored in th...
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| Language: | fra |
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Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Récits Cultures Et Sociétés
2011-08-01
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| Series: | Cahiers de Narratologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/narratologie/6310 |
| Summary: | For his first fiction feature, Raymond Depardon chooses a radical device to direct the passionate love of a man for a woman: never see him never hear him; he is only present thanks to his voice-over and the camera-glances of this woman. Kind of a shape of a subjective point of view is anchored in the first sequences. Yet, despite a hand-held shot, sound and visual clues strangely disturb this subjective point of view; an unexpected objective internal sound linked to the female character and the questions asked to the voice-over-character remain unanswered. The audience is imperceptibly led to ask itself questions on the status of this voice-over: varying time-scale, « improbable dialogue » between voice-over and voice-in, mere existence of this voice over character... In Empty Quarter, the voice-over becomes a real character telling a story which is both lived and fantasized. |
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| ISSN: | 0993-8516 1765-307X |