Frédéric Sojcher – Cinéastes à Tout Prix AKA Born to Film (2004)

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Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix)

RousseauWith winning merriment and generous clips, Frédéric Sojcher’s Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix) explores the oeuvre of three Belgian pioneers of outsider cinema (the U.S. counterpart might be Chris Smith’s American Movie). These dime-store DeMilles practice a cinema that’s home-made and a hundred percent hands-on. The 78-year-old Max Naveaux, for one, even develops all his own films in equipment he himself invented. Hiding behind no fig leaf of intellectual experimentation, Naveaux vigorously mines his beloved war film genre in such unsung and largely unseen features as Hell Patrol and Maquis Contra Gestapo. For his part, retired economics prof Jacques Hardy favors cut-rate spectacles like César Barbarius in Southern Belgium that make ample use of horned Viking helmets, with fantasy scenes where strands of spaghetti rise sinuously off the plate and erotic harem dreams recall the fanciful 8mm extravaganzas of America’s Kuchar brothers. The third auteur, who insists on taking the name of populist philosopher and foe of governmental restraints Jean-Jacques Rousseau (only “without the hyphen!”), appears throughout clad in black leather, his face concealed behind a ski mask (above). In his prodigious output of 34 features (so far), “Rousseau” applies his absurdist aesthetic to a political agenda (in his The Gulag of Terror, for example, communists defeat the Nazis), but Spielberg had better stay on guard because Rousseau declares a state of war against American action films, and has even devised a theme song for the struggle (to the tune of “The Internationale”). The film follows these three veterans of DYI filmmaking as they revisit old locations (including the red-light district of Liège) and reassemble their past actors and crews (who are every bit as quirky as the directors, with a surprising number recounting tales of defying their families, who discouraged or suppressed their film aspirations). One of the secondary players says it’s good that Rousseau resisted the suicidal impulse to throw himself down a quarry when “there are so many other pain-in-the-ass filmmakers.”

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English VOBSUBS