OLD: Chartres (Jean Grémillon, 1923) + Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)
WHY: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our special double bill. Tonight, first of all, in Museum Hours,
you will see Jem Cohen’s camera getting into paintings and exploring
the mysteries and humors of space in this cinematic encounter of
recently deceased Chris Marker and Brueghel. During our 10 minute
interval, if nature is not calling you, please, stay seated and watch a
short film, by the greatest revived director of the year, Jean
Grémillon. In Chartres, Grémillon displays more possibilities
of spatial representation on film and that “universal anguish
transmitted by figurative representation.” He also shows some angels
crowning the columns of the Chartres cathedral. In the second half of
the program, screening newly restored Bonjour Tristesse, one of
those angels, Jean Seberg, will descend from column to embody the story
in which each scene is treated like a dense architecture/painting
composition. While Cohen sees the essential pleasure in the careful
observation of ordinary life, put next to the solidness of art and
architecture, Preminger’s world is built on the lives of characters
whose being is defined by arts, as if they are elements of the space or
brush strokes in motion. I hope you enjoy tonight’s show and my final
recommendation is listening to Bill Evans’ You Must Believe in Spring album, on your way back home, so your elation of being in the presence of great art be completed. Bonne projection!
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