Kino-Konzert: The Revealer
Philippe Garrel (France 1968)
The Revealer is one of the first films by French actor, screenwriter and film director Philippe Garrel. Garrel, a child of the Nouvelle Vague and the 1968 movement, made the film shortly after May 1968 out of the hangover left by the unfulfilled hopes of the Paris spring. But the film also works on a purely intuitive level without knowledge of the context. The Revealer is a silent film and shot in black and white. «A couple and their child flee a threat that cannot be described or grasped. A film without laughter and whispers. In the end, in a landscape of desolation, dampness and degradation, it is the weakest being that rebels: the child.” (Bernadette Lafont) Or in the words of the director himself: “I probably made this little, dreamy, nomadic film about the family because, with the revolution down, there was no point in talking about politics anymore.”
Filmpodium and IOIC – Institute of Incoherent Cinematography – are showing this silent film from the talkie era with a live soundtrack by renowned Canadian-Lebanese producer, singer, lutenist and electronics player Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, also known as Jerusalem in My Heart, and the Transylvanian- Swiss singer, electronics player and cellist Réka Csiszér, known for the experimental solo project Víz, the electronic duo Bitter Moon and as the singer of the Zurich local heroes The Pussywarmers & Réka.
Script: Philippe Garrel
Camera: Michael Fournier
Cut: Philippe Garrel
With: Laurent Terzieff (the father), Bernadette Lafont (the mother), Stanislas Robiolle (the child)
67 min., bw, DCP, silent film without subtitles
