Impressions de New York

Synopsis

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis. (MIFF:) These are no ordinary travel notes brought back from America by filmmakers; they are not enthusiastic records of skyscrapers and crowds. but disturbing aspects of a hallucinatory world of concrete and metal, glaring light and haunting shadow. The film is notable for its dramatic use of colour, and music from Bela Bartok's ballet "The Miraculous Mandarin". (a-t:) F.B. confides in his memoir 'Le monde a encore un visage' (1981): "When I went to New York for the first time, I'd brought along a Bell & Howell 16mm camera whose instructions I hadn't read. I didn't know how to use the film, and inadvertently loaded some rolls that had already been printed, which resulted in these strange superimposed images. A well-known process that I had reinvented by accident".

Main Cast

Jacques Doniol-Valcroze

Commentary

Age : 69 | Popularity : 3%

Jean Desailly

Narrator

Age : 87 | Popularity : 5%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Executive Producer	Pierre Braunberger
Writing	Writer	Jacques Doniol-Valcroze François Reichenbach
Editing	Editor	Renée Lichtig
Directing	Director	François Reichenbach
Crew	Cinematography	François Reichenbach
Sound	Original Music Composer	Béla Bartók
Department	Role	Name

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