A master director who signals action with a whistle while chaos reigns—cinema as beautiful anarchy.
Georgian director Otar Iosseliani prepares his film Jardins en Automne. Nothing is conventional in the filmmaker's system: Julie Bertuccelli portrays the gestation and production of a film that seems to follow the freest and most unpredictable poetic intuitions of its creator. The constant and hilarious arguments with the producer, Martine Marignac, a Michel Piccoli transformed into an old woman, and the director's peculiar filming system, in which he signals his actors to start with a whistle, paint a picture of one of the most unclassifiable cinematic experiences in contemporary cinema.
Direction
Bertuccelli captures Iosseliani's beautiful refusal to compromise.
Editing
Arguments with producer become comedic art.
Acting
Piccoli's old woman transformation is pure committed madness.
Director
Julie Bertuccelli
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