Episode 458: L'Amour Fou (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Our look at 1969 continues with a discussion of Jacques Rivette’s L’Amour Fou. The story of a director, Sebastien, and an actress, Claire. We watch them work together on the play Andromaque -- seeing the crafting of the production via behind-the-scenes 16mm footage as well as the 35mm film cameras that capture the real behind-the-scenes footage of Sebastien and Claire’s fizzling relationship.

Jonathan Owen and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss this four hour epic which marks a radical change in Rivette's filmmaking.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:06.9	What number are we thinking of?
0:09.8	69, dudes!
0:15.8	It's a 19-19-0. It's a 19669 okay
0:23.6	All across the USA
0:27.6	It's another year for me and you
0:34.6	Another year with nothing to do It's another year for me and you
0:41.3	Another year with nothing to do
0:48.3	Film is not an immediate art form
0:51.3	Production can take weeks or months or more to complete.
0:55.2	The cinema of 1969 reflects the turmoil of 1968.
1:00.1	The political upheaval in protest that went on around the globe.
1:04.4	From the Tet Offensive in January of 1968, the General Strikes of France in May 68,
1:10.0	the riots that ravaged America from Washington, D.C., to Chicago, to Kansas City throughout the spring and into summer.
1:18.1	Political crises in Poland, Pakistan, West Germany, Scandinavia, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Italy, France, Brazil, and the UK, and Yugoslavia.
1:31.3	If 1968 is a year that shook the world, then the fallout of that year should be writ large on the silver screen in 1969.
1:40.8	Throughout the year, we'll be looking at several films from 1969 and how politics, economics, religious, societal, and intellectual shifts in 1968 were reflected in the cinema of 1969.
1:55.1	Join us, won't you?
2:00.3	Music It's a lot, la la la la. It's the full that you can't be very pretty He needs to be kept very close to you.
2:20.3	Because there is Sebastian who will me re-pren to me
2:26.3	to me to me to me to me.
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