Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

1977
11m
6.1

6.1/10

9 votes • View on IMDb
Overview

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.

Status: Released

Language: FR

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Production Information

Production Countries
France
Spoken Languages
French

Quick Facts

Original Title Toute révolution est un coup de dés
Release Date December 7, 1977
Status Released
Language FR
IMDb ID tt0076834

Cast

Helmut Färber
Helmut Färber

(Re)citer

Michel Delahaye
Michel Delahaye

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Georges Goldfayn
Georges Goldfayn

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Danièle Huillet
Danièle Huillet

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Manfred Blank
Manfred Blank

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Marilù Parolini
Marilù Parolini

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Aksar Khaled
Aksar Khaled

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Andrea Spingler
Andrea Spingler

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Dominique Villain
Dominique Villain

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Key Crew

Jean-Marie Straub
Director
Danièle Huillet
Director
Danièle Huillet
Screenplay
Jean-Marie Straub
Screenplay