Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Helmut Färber

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Michel Delahaye

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Georges Goldfayn

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Danièle Huillet

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Manfred Blank

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Marilù Parolini

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Aksar Khaled

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Andrea Spingler

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Director of Photography	William Lubtchansky Dominique Chapuis
Writing	Screenplay	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
	Author	Stéphane Mallarmé
Directing	Director	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
Editing	Editor	Jean-Marie Straub Danièle Huillet
Sound	Sound Mixer	Louis Hochet
	Sound Recordist	Alain Donavy
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