Monday, February 14, 2011 Jacques Baratier
retrospective at the Cinémathèque (work in progress / log) 
February 9 opening of the retrospective.
Diane Baratier presents the films of his father. She says this wonderful thing (I quote roughly): "we've always said that my father's films were unclassifiable. Me, if I tried to classify them, I would say they belong to the genre of films non-synchronous. And it's an important thing to my father, I believe, this non-synchronous with his films. It is his relationship to the world that takes place there. "
This can be seen very quickly with Goha first Tunisian film in color, with Omar Sharif, dating from 1958. Or how to get by Baratier with a big machine and a story in a straight line to cover their tracks and impose its singularity. The film is often funny and even touching. Despite the ongoing chaos, the constant interference of the narrative by staging, Baratier takes his film from one end to another. And when there is an ass in the scenario, there is a donkey in the image. This is never set, it is never folk, the material it has and it deals equally with other subjects. If Omar Sharif crying beside his donkey, the donkey also has a part to play in the scene.
They say that if everything is at this level, the retrospective should be worthwhile.
Antoine Mouton
http://fromafog.blogspot.com/
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