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A factory siren sounds, workers punch in, the machinery starts. A worker opens small bags under a spout that spews beans into the bag. The worker must open a new bag quickly before the spout…Read More »
Pascal Aubier
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Pascal Aubier – La mort du rat AKA Death of the Rat (1973)
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Pascal Aubier – Valparaiso, Valparaiso (1971)
1971-1980Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtComedyFrancePascal AubierPoliticsReview by Jonathan Rosenbaum:
It’s been a full quarter of a century, but I still harbor fond memories of a low-budget French comedy called Valparaiso Valparaiso, a first feature starring Alain Cuny and Bernadette Lafont that I saw at Cannes in 1973. A lighthearted satire about the myopia of romantic French revolutionaries, it details an elaborate hoax perpetrated on a befuddled leftist–a character so absorbed in the glory of departing for Chile to fight the good fight as a special agent that he doesn’t even notice the political struggle going on around him on the French docks when he leaves. Read More »