Norwich University is closing its virtual Tournée French Film Festival next week with the classic film "Le Mystère de Picasso" (The Mystery of Picasso) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Screening "The Mystery of Picasso" with subtitles is on Friday, April 9th at 6:30pm.
The screening will be followed by a roundtable discussion with Dr. Judith Stallings-Ward, Professor of Spanish at Norwich University.
The festival is free and open to the public. Register here:
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The FACE Foundation summarizes the "Mystery of Picasso" in these terms:
"Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot, the director of masterpieces of suspense such as Le Corbeau and The Wages of Fear, had been friends for thirty years when they decided to rent a studio in Nice in the summer of 1955 and make a film. The result is one of cinema's most vivid documents of a great artist at work, lifted by two brilliant decisions Clouzot made in his approach to Picasso. The first was to avoid the anecdotal, entirely eschewing interviews and explicatory material, while the second and most important was to ask Picasso to paint on a semi-transparent canvas that is filmed from behind, filling the frame, so that viewers see Picasso's art take shape before their eyes. The choice to show Picasso's lines without his hand allows for his act of artistic creation to become a beguiling animated spectacle, but also plays on film's unique ability to share a point-of-view, giving viewers rare insight into how a genius might see his work. The wonder of seeing this great artist wrestling with a composition and, as Picasso put it, of seeing the painting beneath the paintings, is enhanced by this bright, sharp restoration, which makes it seem like Picasso is still at his easel today."
Watch the film trailer here: https://face-foundation.org/the-mystery-of-picasso/
Tournées Film Festival is made possible with the support of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the U.S., the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'Image Animée (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation, and Highbrow Entertainment.
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