Jardin (du Paradis) the Garden, Le

Film Maker
Bendahan, Raphael
Year
1982
Country
Canada
Language
Format
16mm
Length
20
Genre
experimental
Category
Portraits

“‘Le Jardin’ works through a number of experimental film ‘genres.’ It contains elements of the structural film, diary, autobiography, and the new narrative. It presents the viewer with a simple through-line (story), but its means are at tangent to the core of the film’s incidents. Apparently arbitrary choices of sound and image elements later resolve into a strong, effective coincidence – only to dissolve as the film moves forward. The arbitrary becoming meaningful might well be the theme of ‘Le Jardin.’” – P. Chapman, Opsis “Le film se veut une reflexion sur la vie et la mort. C’est une longue recherché d’identite a travers le passé et le present. C’est la difficulte d’etre un immigrant dans un pays qui se cherche, un questionnement sur le bonheur et surtout un besoin evident de tendresse… S’experimant tantot en anglais, tantot en francais, le narrateur se tourne vers son passé pour mieux saisir le present… c’est un film qui s’addresse avant-tout a l’intelligence et a la sensibilite. Pas etonnant qu’on en sorte profondement touché…” – Denis Lapante, Plein Cadre

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