scenario et synopsis
by Bruce Krebs
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Note :
"A season in hell" was written in 1872, just after the massacre of the commune of Paris (1871). We know that the young Arthur Rimbaud, absent, could not participate in the events. We also know that he was present in Paris ten days before the rebellion. Cristin Scott, American essayist, showed how the "Commune de Paris" influenced the young poet. She compares the texts of Rimbaud to the speech of libertarian Parisians, the integration of slogans in his writings. I composed the script of this film from the texts of Arthur Rimbaud. But, of course, I could not illustrate his entire collection. I chose to interpret the most "visual" sequences - an animated film cannot express concepts. |
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In a noisy cabaret, Arthur Rimbaud sits at a table with his head back.
A waitress comes first.
A sculpture sits on Arthur’s lap: Beauty.
Rimbaud rejects it and destroys it and runs away. |
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| Arthur Rimbaud runs away from the cabaret. Outside, we hear shrapnel from far away. |
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At the end of the race, Arthur Rimbaud falls into a dilapidated setting. He is out of breath.
Prussian soldiers surround it.
With rage, he grew and crushed the soldiers with his feet. Arthur Rimbaud falls into the void. He falls at the foot of a statue of Bismark that crumbles and collapses... |
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| Arthur remembers that not long before, he was trying to create modern poetry. He reinvented vowels, consonants, he sought to transcribe the inexpressible. |
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| He even flattered himself to invent an inaccessible poetic verb... Then he deluded, he saw in turn, a school of drums, carriages, a living room etc... But he notes bitterly that these works were vain, far from the reality "rough to embrace"... |
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He feels innocent as the newborn who does not understand what is happening to him!
It’s attached to an execution pole.
He does not understand the laws, he feels that he does not have a moral sense.
At the command the soldiers kill the child. |
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| Behind Rimbaud, symbolically murdered, thousands of Communards lie in their coffins... Rimbaud feels helpless. |
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He forces himself to react. He thinks for a while that he must get rid of this melancholy.
He decided to join the army and to step up.
But faced with the absurdity of the war, he decides to offer himself as a victim...
But nobody wants him. |
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| Another possibility: the Orient. An imaginary Orient populated by joyful nations The Orient, which perhaps will free him from his torpor. A balloon carries him into the sky. |
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There are dancers waiting for him
(the two musicians are the same as those of the cabaret).
Is it true life? Is it the first wisdom.
Alas, the setting goes out like a theatre setting |
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| "You have to be modern." From the skull of Rimbaud which opens, an army of Prussians springs from it. |
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Arthur Rimbaud describes his pride that gnaws at him.
He climbs along a cube and reaches the top... Soldiers from both sides advance against each otherlike in a card game. Arrived at the edge of the cube, they are killed as at the carnival. Arthur is horrified! He no longer knows "to what saint he should dedicate himself"... He wonders: "… What lie should I hold? In which blood to walk? " |
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| Arthur Rimbaud seems to be waking from a bad nightmare. He is always in the cabaret, surrounded by musicians, couples of happy dancers. He notes that the world is good. He finally declares that all that preceded, "It’s in the past!" He now knows how to recognize ... Beauty... |
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