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June 29, 2005
Model behavior: Bresson's Pickpocket
The Age talks a bit with filmmaker Babette Mangolte about her documentary, The Models of Pickpocket, about three non-actors who appeared in Robert Bresson's 1959 movie.
"Is it possible to confuse a film with real life? At the beginning of her engrossing documentary... we see Babette Mangolte, a cinematographer who has directed several films, ... provoked to ask the question when she meets an elderly man at a party. He looks familiar, and she thinks he may have been one of her university teachers. "Perhaps you saw me at the cinema," he says. Decades earlier, he tells her, he had appeared in... Pickpocket.... This is the beginning of a search for Mangolte: having met Pierre Leymarie, now the director of a genetic research laboratory, who played a character more than 40 years earlier in a compelling, austere masterpiece, her curiosity is piqued..." [More at the link.]
Posted by at June 29, 2005 12:03 AM
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