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Les Saisons
1972 , 29′ , noir et blanc , documentaire
Réalisation : Artavazd Pelechian. Production : studio Erevan, Artavazd Pelechian.
Life in the Armenian mountains is evoked by astonishing images of the hardness of the work (transhumance, hay harvest) and the emotion that reigns during the festivals. Non-narrative cinematographic poem, without commentary, to music by Vivaldi, sometimes interrupted by synchronous sounds.
A man struggles in the torrent, catches up with a sheep, perhaps drowns, is swept away again. A group of men, with a sheep in their arms, rush down steep, stony or snow-covered slopes at full speed. They pull, push, hold or are carried away by the haystacks sliding down the hills. A mired truck that we try to free at night in torrential rain. The man who was carried away by the torrent is now married, he wears his most beautiful clothes, his wife laughs, cries, supported by her friends who kiss him in turn. Both simple and mystical dimension of the scenes of everyday life rendered by an editing of rare strength.
Nathalie Magnan
