The Ludwig Van Picture Show.//Pas sur la bouche

The last film and music May date in the “The Ludwig Van Picture Show” series features Pas sur la bouche by Alain Resnais. From a frivolous “hyper-Parisian” musical comedy, Resnais makes one of his most ethereal, carefree films. In this purposefully stilted pure stage work on film the poetic complexity is inversely proportional to the straightforwardness of the text. Resnais’s film is no re-interpretation or just another re-staging, but a thoroughly re-created production aimed at resuscitating the dead, or resurrecting the spirit of Paris in the 1920s, by now well and truly forgotten. Resnais’ own screenplay is based on the operetta by André Barde and Maurice Yvain.
Free entrance