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René Clair’s 1924 avant-garde masterpiece Entr’Acte opens with a cannon firing into the audience and that’s pretty much a statement of purpose for the whole movie. Clair wanted to shake up the audience, throwing it into a disorienting world of visual bravado and narrative absurdity.
Oct 4, 1979 · Entr'acte: Directed by René Clair. With Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp. An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
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Entr'acte. Entr'acte (or entracte, French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tʁakt]; [1] German: Zwischenspiel and Zwischenakt, Italian: intermezzo, Spanish: intermedio and intervalo) means 'between the acts'. It can mean a pause between two parts of a stage production, synonymous to an intermission (this is nowadays the more common meaning in French), but ...
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Oct 11, 2016 · A classic of avant-garde cinema, 'Entr'acte' was made as an intermission for the Ballets Suédois production of Relâche, a Dada theater work that premiered in Paris in December of 1924. The ballet's director, Francis Picabia, gave René Clair a short scenario around which to build the film, and Erik Satie composed an original score to ...
Summaries. An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear. René Clair and Erik Satie jump near a cannon which is aimed at the spectator and fires a cannon shot.The participants in a funeral procession begin to ...
Directed by René Clair • 1924 • France One of the seminal films of the surrealist art movement, ENTR’ACTE (1924) brought together three of the great French artists of its time: Francis Picabia, Erik Satie, and René Clair. Presented in two parts as the introduction and intermission of a ballet, E...
Entr'acte is a surrealistic concoction of unrelated images, reflecting Clair's interest in Dada, a fashionable radical approach to visual art which relied on experimentation and surreal expressionism.
