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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Time Regained
158 minutes (18) Artificial Eye
Director: Raoul Ruiz
review by Dawn Andrews
As just about everyone knows, Marcel Proust spent most of his life in bed. He wrote
in bed, and spent his night hours sticking together (literally) his life's work. This
film opens with him in situ, very ill, leafing through a pile of photographs. Marcello
Mazzarello plays the writer with a shy reserve and a mask-like countenance, looking
remarkably like a photograph of Proust. Running through this film is a theme of the
correlation between cinematography and photography, done with a mastery over time and
space by the cinematographer Darius Khndji, who plays tricks that defy explanation;
faces at a concert becoming drained of animation, and shuffled, until they resemble
photographs; characters cut out of the surrounding scene as if pasted on as a quirky
afterthought; while the sound washes in and out, transforming clattering teaspoon into
church bell, voices into the sound of the sea, gossip into music and melancholy. There
is no plot, memories and thoughts unravel, 'fictional' characters mingle and converse
with 'real' ones. Are you someone who enjoys the seductive slow dissolve and
breathless pause that can exist before a seemingly ordinary event, the excitement of
the moment, the encroachment of polymorphous sexuality into every thought, word and
gesture? Add to this a cast including Emmanuel Beart as Gilberte, and Catherine
Deneauve as a radiantly licentious Odette. See it.
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