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Articles

L’usine vide comme imaginaire cinématographique

Pages 314-322 | Published online: 15 May 2014
 

Abstract

Alain Guiraudie chose an idle steel mill as the setting for a fictional chronicle of the unemployed in the grips of liquid modernity, as defined by Zygmunt Bauman. In his joyous naturalism, which sidesteps the stock images of unemployment from the cinema of the past century, Guiraudie refuses to associate deindustrialization and misery, poetically mixing the dignity of the dispossessed and an affirmation of homosexual and working class desires. In so doing, Ce vieux rêve qui bouge questions the love/work relationship and extends the “artistic critique” of capitalism.

Notes

1 Berlioz, Hector. « Villanelle ». Les Nuits d’été (op. 7), 1841. Mélodie sur un poème de Théophile Gautier tiré du recueil La Comédie de la mort, 1838.

2 Le réalisateur s’oriente vers une construction inspirée de la machine de Léonard est un génie, de Bob de Groot et Turk (Dargaud, 1977).

3 Lavilliers, Bernard. « Les Barbares ». Les Barbares. Barclay, 1976. La chanson évoque la vie et les rêves des habitants des cités minières.

4 Entretien avec Jean Renoir dans le documentaire télévisé de la série « Cinéastes de notre temps » (réal. Jacques Rivette, 1967).

5 Ce vieux rêve qui bouge a néanmoins reçu le prix Jean-Vigo 2001 du long métrage, ex-æquo avec Candidature d’Emmanuel Bourdieu.

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Fabienne Bullot

Fabienne Bullot is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her research focuses on questions of political, cultural, and social history such as the representation of work and leisure in fictional film, documentaries, and literature. She is currently completing a book entitled La Gueule cassée de l’emploi: chômeurs du cinéma français.

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