Den ville gjengen

Sight & Sounds nyeste nummer er viet en vill og rebelsk gjeng regissør, The Wild Bunch. Blant regissøren finner vi Luis Bunuel, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lars von Trier og Gaspar Noé. Men hva har de rebelske og ville regissørene til felles?

«First, they are mostly impatient with the Aristotelian unities of time and space – bugger that. They prefer their settings to be baroque, extended into multiple realms. Second, they’re not ones for categories – think of the bisexuality and populism of Paul Verhoeven, or Baz Luhrmann’s masala of disco, Shakespeare, Bollywood and Sergio Leone. Third, they’re all people for whom the birth of an idea in the mind’s eye is basically a violent or feverish event. Unlike the great movies of, say, Cukor, Ford, Hawks, Rouch and the great Indian director Tapan Sinha, who died in January, form is not servile to content for them. Rather, it is monstrous – “exploding, like the eruption of Mount St Helens”, as David Lynch once told me in an interview. Each of these ‘wild’ directors has a psychic energy that is manic to a degree and might well be fuelled by sexual rage, or colonial exploitation, or a Marxist hatred of consumerism, or a fear of modernity or the body (Tsukamoto Shinya, we salute you) – or by historical events such as Partition. But that energy in turn fuels a will to form that is so feral it makes the act of film-making look feverish – and makes fairness to content seem like an anaemic propriety», skriver kommentatoren.

Den ville gjengen

Sight & Sounds nyeste nummer er viet en vill og rebelsk gjeng regissør, The Wild Bunch. Blant regissøren finner vi Luis Bunuel, Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lars von Trier og Gaspar Noé. Men hva har de rebelske og ville regissørene til felles?

«First, they are mostly impatient with the Aristotelian unities of time and space – bugger that. They prefer their settings to be baroque, extended into multiple realms. Second, they’re not ones for categories – think of the bisexuality and populism of Paul Verhoeven, or Baz Luhrmann’s masala of disco, Shakespeare, Bollywood and Sergio Leone. Third, they’re all people for whom the birth of an idea in the mind’s eye is basically a violent or feverish event. Unlike the great movies of, say, Cukor, Ford, Hawks, Rouch and the great Indian director Tapan Sinha, who died in January, form is not servile to content for them. Rather, it is monstrous – “exploding, like the eruption of Mount St Helens”, as David Lynch once told me in an interview. Each of these ‘wild’ directors has a psychic energy that is manic to a degree and might well be fuelled by sexual rage, or colonial exploitation, or a Marxist hatred of consumerism, or a fear of modernity or the body (Tsukamoto Shinya, we salute you) – or by historical events such as Partition. But that energy in turn fuels a will to form that is so feral it makes the act of film-making look feverish – and makes fairness to content seem like an anaemic propriety», skriver kommentatoren.

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