Comme si, comme ça
| Actor | Marie-Claude Treilhou |
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“The 21st century will be poetic or will not be”. In the second minute, Deguy asks the fundamental question of what to do with poetry in this day and age. Marie-Claude Treilhou makes this modern-day taboo (no-one’s really dared call themselves a poet since… 1945?) the centre of her film, and Deguy its lighthouse in the darkness. What to do with Baudelaire or Claudel today? How does poetry work? What blind spot in human thought does it target?
“I mull over these things incessantly”: Deguy resembles Artaud’s self-portraits. Dragging his words from the depths of language, he speaks with his eyes closed (it’s an extraordinary experience for the viewer: denying us his gaze only accentuates the musicality of the words!).”There is no thing in itself. The thing is such that we seek to say it as it is.” “The visible is barely visible, it needs to be shown”. This magnetic film takes us on a wild quest for truth and presence.
Arnaud Lambert
Director
“The 21st century will be poetic or will not be”. In the second minute, Deguy asks the fundamental question of what to do with poetry in this day and age. Marie-Claude Treilhou makes this modern-day taboo (no-one’s really dared call themselves a poet since… 1945?) the centre of her film, and Deguy its lighthouse in the darkness. What to do with Baudelaire or Claudel today? How does poetry work? What blind spot in human thought does it target?
“I mull over these things incessantly”: Deguy resembles Artaud’s self-portraits. Dragging his words from the depths of language, he speaks with his eyes closed (it’s an extraordinary experience for the viewer: denying us his gaze only accentuates the musicality of the words!).”There is no thing in itself. The thing is such that we seek to say it as it is.” “The visible is barely visible, it needs to be shown”. This magnetic film takes us on a wild quest for truth and presence.
Arnaud Lambert
Director
