1951
- Drama
- Horror
- Mystery
Isabelle aux Dombes
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0h 9m
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- FR
- France
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- xx
Pialat's first film was the 8-minute short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that's surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes an eerie psuedo-horror piece that's obsessed with death and decay. (FilmAffinity)
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StatusReleased
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Release dateJan. 1, 1951
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Original LanguageFrench