Pasolini, poet and filmmaker Screening hosted by Hervé Joubert-Laurencin
Vue de l’exposition « Pasolini en clair-obscur »
NMNM / Neil Bicknell
Screening moderated by Pasolini specialist and translator Hervé Joubert-Laurencin. He will review the prolific and protean artistic output of one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century.
Echoing the “Pasolini in Chiaroscuro” exhibition organized by NMNM at Villa Sauber.
The presentation of my latest book on Pasolini, published by Editions Macula, which attempts to embrace the entire body of work, but also seeks to avoid boring synthesis and encyclopedic summary, will provide an opportunity to take an overview of Pasolini’s immense and multifaceted artistic output through a few striking glimpses, allowing us to open a few windows. In particular, the two short films on the program form two incredible Baroque balconies overlooking the work, particularly full of thought, painting, cruel joy and laughter that is both obscene and metaphysical.
La Ricotta, a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy – 1963 – 35 min – VOSTF
Segment of the collective film RoGoPaG by Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Ugo Gregoretti
with Orson Welles, Mario Cipriani, Vittorio La Paglia and Laura
Orson Welles, grandiose and ankylosed, wedged into his filmmaker’s chair, shooting on location, looks at the pitiful journalist who has come to the news and, putting on his mirror glasses, recites one of Pasolini’s most beautiful poems: “I am a force from the past…”. unforgettable! La ricotta, a brilliant film about great painting and the little hands of cinema, about the hunger of the destitute and the end of the world, faith in Jesus Christ from the point of view of the good thief and revolutionary hope from the side of the death of the poor. Pasolini’s finest film.
The session ends with a surprise film by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Hervé Joubert-Laurencin teaches cinema at the University of Paris Nanterre. He is a translator and Pasolini specialist (Écrits sur le cinéma, 1987 and 2000, Pasolini. Portrait du poète en cinéaste, 1995, Porno Théo Kolossal, 2016, and recently Le Grand Chant. Pasolini poète et cinéaste). Also a historian of film criticism, in 2018 he edited two books, one on Jean-Claude Biette, the other on the Écrits complets d’André Bazin, two emblematic signatures of Cahiers du cinéma.
Admission: €5
Petite Salle de l’Institut audiovisuel de Monaco
L’Engelin
83-85 boulevard du jardin exotique MC 98000 Monaco
