%0 Journal Article
%T Distance and Involvement : Visualising History in Patrice Ch¨¦reau's La Reine Margot (1994) and in ¨¦ric Rohmer's L'Anglaise et le duc (2001) Distance and Involvement : Visualising History in Patrice Ch¨¦reau's La Reine Margot (1994) and in ¨¦ric Rohmer's L'Anglaise et le duc (2001)
%A Margriet Hoogvliet
%J Revue Electronique de Litterature Francaise : RELIEF
%D 2012
%I Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
%X This article analyses strategies of visualisation of the past in two French films d'histoire: La Reine Margot (1994) by directed by Patrice Ch¨¦reau and L'Anglaise et le duc (2001) by ¨¦ric Rohmer. Both films have modern political and societal implications: Ch¨¦reau's film contains several clear hints towards a reading of the ¡°greatest massacre¡± of France's past as a critique of the modern era, while Rohmer rather wanted to make his audience aware of the ambiguities of the founding period of the French Republic. However, the two film directors have made use of completely different strategies for visualising the past and in order to involve their audiences: Ch¨¦reau by making a conscious use of visual anachronisms and Rohmer by a scrupulous reconstruction of a painterly historical vision. This article analyses strategies of visualisation of the past in two French films d'histoire: La Reine Margot (1994) by directed by Patrice Ch¨¦reau and L'Anglaise et le duc (2001) by ¨¦ric Rohmer. Both films have modern political and societal implications: Ch¨¦reau's film contains several clear hints towards a reading of the ¡°greatest massacre¡± of France's past as a critique of the modern era, while Rohmer rather wanted to make his audience aware of the ambiguities of the founding period of the French Republic. However, the two film directors have made use of completely different strategies for visualising the past and in order to involve their audiences: Ch¨¦reau by making a conscious use of visual anachronisms and Rohmer by a scrupulous reconstruction of a painterly historical vision.
%K Patrice Ch¨¦reau
%K La Reine Margot
%K Patrick Rohmer
%K L'Anglaise et le duc
%K Grace Elliot
%K Marguerite de Valois
%K images
%U http://www.revue-relief.org/index.php/relief/article/view/761