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Déjeuner chez Gertrude Stein

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Exhibition Title	Déjeuner chez Gertrude Stein
English Title	Lunch with Gertrude Stein
Director	Isabelle Prim
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Year	2013
Format	DM
Colour	Color + B&W
Duration	44'

Cast:

Christophe, Camille Prim, Isabelle Saint-Saens, Olivier Cadiot

Credits:

F, E: Isabelle Prim
S, M: Géry Petit
CP: Ecce Films, Prim

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Synopsis

Poet Gertrude Stein invites a fairy for lunch. The fairy goes. And lots of things happen, like the fairy being the 21st century and Gertrude Stein being Paris in the early 20th. Time bends, folds. Spaces too: the connections from and to the house –and also inside of it– aren’t normal. This is Isabelle Prim’s fantasy world, also in its narrative. The fairy doesn’t always dress like a fairy (how do fairies dress?), the characters’ voices aren’t what one could expect, and the gender of the character’s name and history doesn’t match the actor who plays it. Appearances can actually be accurate. Because what we see and hear is multiple, it doesn’t stay still. Neither does this film: diverse lights, scores, velocities, from literature to cinema (from Olivier Cadot’s short novel Fairy Queen) and from cinema to play. And play it is. Lunch with Gertrude Stein is a short and compact sample of how imagination can play with cinema and its elements. JPF