Printemps (Le)

Each character seems to move in a different dream that the camera brings together, afetr Catherine Diverrès’ choreography.

Adaptation for the screen of the show Le Printemps, which begins by showing a galloping horse filmed by Teo Hernandez. The two front legs of the animal, under the effect of the framing and slow motion, strangely assume the appearance of sinewy human legs. In a reverse process, the dancers are driven by a sort of feline but brutal animality. A dance of unsettling strangeness.

Each character seems to move in different dreams that the camera, based on Catherine Diverrès’s choreography, reunites again. The night scenes alternate with scenes in broad daylight, while the images reddened by the sepulchral lighting alternate with those splashed by the sun. The film proposes a choice of contrasted moments, echoing the sometimes turbulent dances of the choreographer, that sweep the bodies of the interpreters down to their abysses and up to their zeniths.

Source : Patrick Bossatti