Miraculous realism : the French-Walloon cinéma du Nord / Niels Niessen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niessen, Niels, 1980- author.

Series:

SUNY series, horizons of cinema.

SUNY series, horizons of cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Borderlands in motion pictures.

Wallonia (Belgium)--In motion pictures.

Wallonia (Belgium).

Nord-Pas-de-Calais (France)--In motion pictures.

Nord-Pas-de-Calais (France).

Humanité (Motion picture).

Rosetta (Motion picture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York State : State University of New York Press, [2020]

Summary:

"At the 1999 Cannes Film Festival, two movies from northern-Francophone Europe swept almost all the main awards. Rosetta by the Walloon directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne won the Golden Palm, and L'humanité by the French director Bruno Dumont won the Grand Prize; both won acting awards as well. Taking this "miracle" of Cannes as the point of departure, Niels Niessen identifies a transregional film movement in the French-Belgian border region-the Cinéma du Nord or "cinema of the North." He examines this movement within the contexts of French and Belgian national cinemas from the silent era to the digital age, as well as that of the new realist tendency in world cinema of the last three decades. In addition, he traces, from a northern perspective, a secular-religious tradition in Francophone-European film and philosophy from Bresson and Pialat, via Bazin, Deleuze, and Godard, to the Dardennes and Dumont, while critiquing this tradition for its frequent use of a humanist vocabulary of grace for a secular world. Once a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, the Franco-Belgian Nord faced economic crisis for most of the twentieth century. Miraculous Realism demonstrates that the Cinéma du Nord's rise to prominence resulted from the region's endeavor to reinvent itself economically and culturally at the crossroads of Europe after decades of recession"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A north wind, or, the miracle of Cannes

Hunting for Easter eggs in Rosetta and L'humanité

Coal-fired fairy tales : the cinéma du Nord

Cinéma du Nord, a Euregional cinema

New realism after the modern cinema.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

ISBN:

9781438477350

143847735X