Summer 1971. In front of Frederic Rossif’s cameras, a young Vangelis Papathanassiou improvises live on screen using his self-made set-up of electronic instruments and percussions while George Mathieu is painting two giant canvases: The Election of Charles Quint and The Necessity of Hope. The great French dramaturge François Billetdoux writes a beautiful text specially for this opportunity.Read More »
“I dreamed of a new encyclopedia … “. Sacha Guitry attended, “according to his tastes” the greatest personalities of his time. He filmed “in their attitudes the most familiar, whenever that was possible.” We see André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas, Anatole France, Lucien Guitry, Octave Mirbeau, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir at his side with his young son Claude Renoir, Henri-Robert, Auguste Rodin, Edmond Rostand, Camille Saint-Saëns . The silent version of 1915 lasted 22 minutes. This finall version redesigned in 1952, lasts 44 minutes, with plans Guitry in his office, and that this comment, shot by Frederic Rossif.Read More »