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Release Date:
June 1, 2018
Original Title:
Poulenc: La Voix Humaine / Bartók: Le Château de Barbe-Bleue
Genres:
Drama | Music
Production Companies:
Arthaus Musik
Opéra National de Paris
Telmondis
Production Countries:
France | Germany
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 121
Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…
Director:
Stéphane Metge
Stéphane Lissner
Lighting Design:
Felice Ross
Music:
Béla Bartók
Francis Poulenc
Producer:
Antoine Perset
Denis Morlière
Laurent Métivier
Set Designer:
Małgorzata Szczęśniak
Stage Director:
Krzysztof Warlikowski
Writer:
Béla Balázs
Jean Cocteau
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