L'étoile de mer (1928)
Country: FR
Technical: bw 21m
Director: Man Ray
Cast: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Synopsis:
The words of the poem by Robert Desnos are given visual interpretation by Ray and his photographic techniques. A man courts a woman but is unable to consummate on account of his preoccupation with a star fish (representing lost love); he overcomes his obsession but she is taken by another.
Review:
Much of this short film is shot as if through frosted glass, partly to make the images more suggestive to the viewer, as if in a dream, partly to disguise the potentially problematic nudity. After his two earlier Dadaist works, it represents Ray's first qualifiably 'surrealist' film. Discernible 'keys' are Desnos' infatuation with the singer Yvonne George, and images evoking castration anxiety.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 21m
Director: Man Ray
Cast: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Synopsis:
The words of the poem by Robert Desnos are given visual interpretation by Ray and his photographic techniques. A man courts a woman but is unable to consummate on account of his preoccupation with a star fish (representing lost love); he overcomes his obsession but she is taken by another.
Review:
Much of this short film is shot as if through frosted glass, partly to make the images more suggestive to the viewer, as if in a dream, partly to disguise the potentially problematic nudity. After his two earlier Dadaist works, it represents Ray's first qualifiably 'surrealist' film. Discernible 'keys' are Desnos' infatuation with the singer Yvonne George, and images evoking castration anxiety.
Country: FR
Technical: bw 21m
Director: Man Ray
Cast: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Synopsis:
The words of the poem by Robert Desnos are given visual interpretation by Ray and his photographic techniques. A man courts a woman but is unable to consummate on account of his preoccupation with a star fish (representing lost love); he overcomes his obsession but she is taken by another.
Review:
Much of this short film is shot as if through frosted glass, partly to make the images more suggestive to the viewer, as if in a dream, partly to disguise the potentially problematic nudity. After his two earlier Dadaist works, it represents Ray's first qualifiably 'surrealist' film. Discernible 'keys' are Desnos' infatuation with the singer Yvonne George, and images evoking castration anxiety.