Children and ruins
It is an experimental film where the filmmaker questions the desire of a film viewer to narrate.This film revives the spirit of research that began with silent cinema, with musical compositions as essential as the dialogue in a feature-length talking film.The ruins of the title visually represent an aspiration to rebuild another world from the old.
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It is an experimental film where the filmmaker questions the desire of a film viewer to narrate. This film revives the spirit of research that began with silent cinema, with musical compositions as essential as the dialogue in a feature-length talking film. The ruins of the title visually represent an aspiration to rebuild another world from the old. Finally, the film questions the possibility of a child proceeding to this reconstruction from a narrative where the elusive meaning of everything around him is to be reinvented
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- Release date
- Jul 14, 2021
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
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- Language
- French
- Country
- France
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