I'm very curious to see the characters behavior in LE TEMPS.
Industrialized nations take light for granted; on the internet, I read
about a movement to counter "LIGHT POLLUTION."
I'll want to look at BARRY LONDON again for those characters lived in a
world of only candlelight and could not have known what they were
missing.
LE TEMPS' characters are apparently aware of the absence of light.
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 10:00 AM, Automatic digest processor
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> `Le temps,'' the purpose is a complex =
> one: First, sensory deprivation, so that the absence of light hugely =
> heightens our feelings of pure fear and uncertainty; second, the =
> heightening of the value of light itself, by re-positioning that which
> =
> we take so much for granted; third--and I believe this extends one of =
> Haneke's most fascinating running ideas as a filmmaker--the extreme =
> envelopment of the viewer inside the world in front of the camera, =
> toward the purpose of an analysis of what is actually being seen. The =
> inside/outside art of Haneke has been realized here with Jurges at a =
> level I've never witnessed before.
> With this extraordinary physical and intellectual acheivement in =
> virtually reversing the primacy of what light and dark is
> conventionally =
> given in cinema, I would have to say that Jurgen Jurges, right now, is
> =
> the world's greatest cinematographer. And ``Le temps de loup'' is =
> unquestionably one of the world's most important films.
> Robert Koehler
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