Jean-Pierre Léaud Retrospective Philippa Hawker July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Issue 71 To be anointed as the child of the nouvelle vague could be a burden for any actor to bear, but Jean-Pierre Léaud has carried it with grace,...
Children of the Revolution – Truffaut and Les Quatre cents coups David Melville July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Issue 71 “I lie... but only once in a while. At times, if I told the truth they wouldn’t believe me. So I tell lies.” - Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre...
Le Départ Bruce Hodsdon July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Issue 71 Jerzy Skolimowski’s Le Départ (1967) was shot in three weeks on a budget of just $US100,000 – a low cost even in the mid-1960s (1). There was...
“Thirteen Others Formed a Strange Crew”: Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Performance in Out 1 by Jacques Rivette Daniel Fairfax July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Issue 71 Jean-Pierre Léaud strides down the middle of a narrow Parisian street, declaiming a few lines of nonsense poetry, which he repeats several times...
Irma Vep John Fidler July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Issue 71 Originally published in Senses of Cinema Issue 56, August 2010 With its rapid cuts, roaming camera, passel of characters (some of them so pitiful...
The Mother and the Whore Martine Pierquin July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Issue 71 Originally published in Senses of Cinema Issue 48, August 2008 La Maman et la putain/The Mother and the Whore (1973 France 215...
October Love Song: the 51st Viennale Daniel Fairfax November 2013 Festival Reports Issue 69 There are festivals that are objectively deemed to be ‘major’, and then there are festivals that have a special place in our individual hearts....
