Jaune le soleil

Marguerite Duras

Feature film | France | 16 mm | 1.37 | b&w | mono | 1971 | 98' 00"
350 €

Original language: Français Screening Copy: 16 mm , DCP

Jaune le soleil is an adaptation by Marguerite Duras of her novel entitled Abahn Sabano David published in 1970. Five actors, locked up in an old house whose black and white checkerboard tiled floor is the only ornament, speculate on improbable relationships around 'a mysterious character, a Jew trying to settle accounts with the past. Only barking dogs evoke the outside world. (F. Tachou)

The film was restored in 4K by the Cinémathèque francaise in 2024 with the collaboration of Jean Mascolo and the Collectif Jeune Cinéma from the original 35mm negatives.

Credits

Director: Marguerite Duras Cinematographer: Ricardo Aronovich Script: Marguerite Duras Editor: Suzanne Baron Producer: Eric Le Bourgeois

Cast

Players: Catherine Sellers, Samy Frey, Dionys Mascolo, Diurka, Michael Lonsdale, Gérard Desarthe

Collectif Jeune Cinéma

The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Young Cinema Collective) is a filmmakers’ cooperative founded in Paris on June 12th 1971.

The vocation of the CJC is to distribute different and experimental films of all lengths, gathered in a catalogue that is continuously enriched by new works. This catalogue covers a very wide spectrum of aesthetics and cinematographic practices. For example, it is the only one to include experimental films made by children and young flimmakers (under 18 yo).

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