Deux Fois— un film de Jackie Raynal /

Ce film est une méditation délibérément élémentaire sur certaines fonctions primaires du film dont on peut dire qu’elles sont à la base du montage en tant que tel – attente, exploration de l’image, mémoire perceptive, relations entre l’espace hors et l’espace sur écran, tous explorés dans une série de plans séquences autonomes d’une simplicité exemplaire. Noël Burch

Jackie Raynal est une des figures majeures du groupe Zanzibar, dont les films marquent une rupture dans le paysage cinématographique tant sur le plan formel que conceptuel. Les cinéastes de Zanzibar dans leur radicalité formelle, minimalisme et leur étrangeté entretiennent des liens étroits avec les artistes plasticiens.

Roughly,Twice upon a time – is Raynal's remarkable Zanzibar feature. Wollen rightly regards it as one of the most astonishing films of the period. Raynal began it as a filmed diary of my encounter with a stranger in Barcelona, in the company of a cameraman-accomplice, André Weinfeld, the camera operator on Garrel's Marie pour Mémoire [1967]. Deux Fois spontaneously draws into itself many influences, histories and traditions. It has been analysed as a deconstructive film and a feminist essay on 'woman as sign', but Raynal also uses less modish sources, such as the Surrealism of Buñuel and Cocteau, as well as a theatricality inspired by Rivette. The film is not only a formalist tour de force, but also mytho-poetic, ritualistic, incantatory – not to mention ironic, performative and mocking (its Warholian side). Beyond what we will never know or understand about this often deliberately cryptic film, the core, phantasmal logic which holds it together is built from various motifs – storytelling, theatre, the couple, dreams and fantasy, the figure of the child – that suggest a new version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. A woman enters into a perpetual metamorphosis, in which she becomes a child. She enters into this self-perpetuating, auto-erotic ritual via all the masks and motions of artifice. However, such regressive liberation into the imaginary realm is always threatened by instability and danger: this woman is constantly drawn back to the public, societal scene of adult sexuality, with its threatening, mysterious, alluring masculine others, its set roles and burdens. Deux Fois is about the difficult trials and passages of the 'single woman' – her absorption into herself and her relations with others, both modes of being viewed as equally impossible. Thèmes : Feature-lenght, Festival d’Hyères, Narrative, Zanzibar

Tarif de location pour une projection : 300 €