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Mouriéras introduces us into the world of the French artist Monory via a gangster film à la Wim Wenders. Behind the neon-lit windows of a hotel room, a writer toils over his book. With the bottle of booze at his elbow, he types, stares at the ventilator fan, and invents an imaginary plot. While on the TV a Chicago bar is being raided, a man comes in and shoots him down precisely as occurs in the scenario he has just invented. This intro is disrupted at appropriate moments by paintings. Monory talks about his doubts concerning the dividing line between fiction and reality, and about his agreement with Stanislas Rodansky. In the course of hanging an exhibition, he explains why he paints his canvases in a thin layer. Gradually, as the conversation proceeds and Monory's ideas become clearer, the more than life-size paintings are each brought into its intended position. They emphasize the absurdity and chaos of everyday life with their hyperventilating colours.
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Sonja van der Burg
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Camera: Michel Houssiau, Jean-Pierre Maurin, Editing: Claude Mouriéras, Renzo di Lullo, Sound: Jean-Pierre Duret, Sound mixing: Michel Notté, Francis Wargnier, Set design: Alain Hecquard, Costumes: Jeanine Hoffman, Production: Centre Dramatique National des Alpes, INA, Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, With: Philippe Clévenot, Jacques Monory
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