Les Flocons d'or/Goldflocken (Schroeter, 1976): ICA Cinema, 6.30pm
ICA introduction:
Using the modest sum in prize money that Willow Springs had
garnered, Schroeter began work on what would be one of his most
uncompromising films to date and an unofficial final part to a trilogy
of films alongside Willow Springs and The Death of Maria Malibran. With
international co-production extending his cast of regular collaborators
like Ingrid Caven and Magdalena Montezuma to include arthouse stalwarts
like Bulle Ogier and Udo Kier, the film encompasses four parts weaving
together high and low culture in a richly textured tapestry of
underground filmmaking. The screening is preceded by an introduction from Anneke Kampman.
Venice film festival review:
A multilingual film, the summary of Schroeter’s early films: four
episodes about great feelings and emotions, about the search for luck,
about destiny and mortality, taking place in Cuba, France and Bavaria.
Beautiful dreamlike variations on classic genres, from kitschy Mexican
melodrama to poetic realism of French art films to Bavarian Heimatfilm
in dialect. As Schroeter said: “It starts with an introduction conceived
like a romantic poem about the general theme of the film: Death”. Les Flocons d’or was
Schroeter’s last “super underground film” for which he could combine a
unique international cast. Andréa Ferréol gambols erotically with
three dogs and recites Poe’s The Raven; Magdalena Montezuma incarnates
an angel of death; Bulle Ogier personifies “The Murderous Soul”; and Udo
Kier carries a flower into the forest, like Schroeter’s hero Novalis,
before repeatedly bashing his head into a rock.
Here (and above) is an excerpt.
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