Visage (film)
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| Original title | Visage |
| Country of production | France , Taiwan , Belgium , Netherlands |
| original language | French , Mandarin , English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 138 minutes |
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| Director | Tsai Ming-liang |
| script | Tsai Ming-liang |
| production | Tsai Ming-liang, Jacques Bidou , Marianne Dumoulin |
| music | Jean-Claude Petit |
| camera | Pen-jung Liao |
| cut | Jacques Comets |
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Visage (Eng: "face") is a French , internationally co-produced drama by the Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang from 2009. The actors include Fanny Ardant , Laetitia Casta and Jeanne Moreau .
action
The Taiwanese director Kang wants to film the legend of Salome in the Louvre in Paris . But first he has to help his elderly mother with the plumbing. When he finally arrived in Paris, he discovered that the film's producers had envisaged a well-known model, who had no acting experience, for the lead role of Salome. This complicates his work on the set, especially since he already has problems because he is not fluent in French.
His main actor, who is supposed to play Herod , seems to have lost his memory, which drives the producer to white heat. However, all of these difficulties during filming become secondary to Kang when he learns that his mother has passed away.
background
With Visage , director Tsai Ming-liang shot What Time Is It There? (2001) a second time in France. Similar Parisian locations can be seen in both films and there are allusions to the French Nouvelle Vague , especially director François Truffaut . Inspired by Truffaut and his frequent lead actor Jean-Pierre Léaud , actor Lee Kang-sheng plays the male lead, as in all of Tsai Ming-liang's films. Four actors who had once worked successfully with Truffaut - in addition to Jean-Pierre Léaud also Jeanne Moreau, Nathalie Baye and Fanny Ardant - agreed to play in Visage .
Visage premiered on May 23, 2009 at the Cannes International Film Festival . On September 11, 2009, the film was also shown at the Toronto International Film Festival , which was followed by several other film festivals such as the Chicago International Film Festival and the Gothenburg International Film Festival . In Germany, the film was shown on arte for the first time on April 23, 2013 .
Reviews
Variety's Jordan Mintzer found that Tsai Ming-liang's "awkward" film, "even though it has a pretty face every now and then," was very annoying and "doesn't get under your skin." Even the “usual tricks of the director and a cast with French stars” could not prevent the film from appearing “inferior and far too bombastic”. Visually, however, Tsai delivered “some memorable shots”. Renaud Baronian von Le Parisien described the film as a "festival [...] of boredom, the grotesque, slowness, repetition and nonsense".
On the occasion of the premiere in Cannes, Olivier Bombarda wrote for arte that Tsai Ming-liang "[o] without any romantic whimsy [...] sensitively and quietly shows the boredom of life". The main actor Lee Kang-sheng and the director have slipped into the roles of Jean-Pierre Léaud and François Truffaut. As a “phantom guest” Truffaut joins “the performances of a meditating Fanny Ardant, a lively Nathalie Baye and a royal Jeanne Moreau”. The film announces "with [every] quote, detail and rare [m] dialogue piece [...] of a troubled love for a dying cinema". Nana AT Rebhan also found for arte that the “elliptically” told story invites “interpretation”, just like the images, which are “fascinating, confusing, irritating, surreal” and “do not really want to fit into a larger whole ], but individually […] quite [develop] their shine ”. Visage is said to be "through unique picture compositions and locations" like the "most modern [e] painting in the Louvre".
Awards
Visage took part in the 2009 Palme d'Or competition at the Cannes Film Festival . The film won two Asian Film Awards in the categories of Best Costume Design (Christian Lacroix, Ann Dunsford, Chia Hui Wang) and Best Production Design (Patrick Dechesne, Alain-Pascal Housiaux, Tian Jue Lee). At the Golden Horse Film Festival , the film received two Golden Horse Awards for Best Production Design (Patrick Dechesne, Alain-Pascal Housiaux) and for Best Make-up & Costume Design (Christian Lacroix, Ann Dunsford) and was also in the Best Picture categories , Best Director (Ming-liang Tsai) and Best Cinematography (Philippe Decouflé) nominated.
Web links
- Visage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures from the premiere in Cannes and film clips on toutlecine.com
- Trailer and pictures for the film on rezofilms.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jordan Mintzer: Review: 'Face' ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Variety , May 22, 2009.
- ↑ Visage. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ “Although it occasionally sports a pretty face , Tsai Ming-liang's laborious Francophone feature winds up seriously irritating the skin without ever actually getting under it. [...] Filled with the helmer's habitual shenanigans, and including a cast of Gallic stars, pic nonetheless feels shoddily conceived and highly overindulgent, even for Tsai. […] Visually speaking, Tsai provides a few memorable images. " Jordan Mintzer: Review: 'Face' . In: Variety , May 22, 2009.
- ^ "Ce film est un festival [...] d'ennui, de grotesque, de lenteur, de répétitions, de non-sens." Renaud Baronian: "Visage": interminable ° . In: Le Parisien , May 23, 2009.
- ↑ a b cf. arte.tv ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
