Theatrical Films and Cinematic Novels: De dans van de reiger and L’Année dernière à Marienbad
2016; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Volume: 17; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1780-678X
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoAfter he had directed four quite successful feature films in only five years, the Dutchman Fons Rademakerssought to make a film with ‘international’ allure. Based upon a 1962 stage play by the well-known Flemishwriter Hugo Claus, he shot De dans van de reiger [The Dance of the Heron] (1966) in the vein of European‘art’ cinema, which recalled a stylistically austere film like Alain Resnais’s L’Annee derniere a Marienbad[Last Year at Marienbad] (1961). The two films bear some resemblances not only in content and style, but alsobecause in each case the scriptwriters published a so-called cine-roman (Alain Robbe-Grillet) or a ‘cinemanovel’ (Claus) in order to, as Claus stated, make ‘corrections in my own imagination.’ My main aim here,however, is to argue how the two films employ a theatrical use of space for specifically cinematic, and henceartistic, effects, whereas the cinema novels, in turn, use cinematic devices to produce literariness.
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