Film director Boris Lehman returns, after 44 years, to Lausanne, where he was born in 1944, at the end of the war. He only lived there one year. His parents were Jews who had sought refuge in Belgium when the Nazis seized power in Poland. Forced to flee from Belgium during the German occupation, they had reached neutral Switzerland after a clandestine journey across France. Bor...
我的头发故事有两行(或两句话)。它们又黑又长。他们变白了。我从1982年起就没剪过头发,所以大约28年前,我的头发是一次穿越时空的旅行。那些在这部电影中寻找地理、科学和历史真相的人会失望的。这部电影通过诗歌和小说意识到了真实的事实和地点,并立即与之保持距离。作者以自己的方式混合了参孙和达利拉的故事,死囚到集中营的旅程,头发科学,以及对生命意义和脆弱性的一些思考。
Experimental visionaries and mavericks of the silver screen discuss what cinema has meant to them.
This film is a gift. A gift for a lady. For Adrienne. She is seventy-seven, the age limit for reading Tintin comics. One evening she invited me to dinner, and at the end of the meal she began to recite a Persian folk tale. I told her that I'd like to come and film it the following week. She thought I was joking, because people had been telling her that for years and no-one had ...
How to talk about History, the big one and the small one, ours and that of each of us Watching television, browsing the Internet, rummaging through the stock of world archives Or more simply, going back to our own images that built us
"Two independent filmmakers, who willingly practise self-fiction, are filming each other in order to communicate better. In spite of their differences in language and style, the film is mainly an attempt to imitate, or even to become, the other, which is doomed to failure. But the film is in fact the story of this collision" - Boris Lehman
“A two-way mirror. Water and fire. Water extinguishes fire, and fire boils away water. There are many difficulties preventing them from understanding one another. They can only marry when one of the two disappears, and yet they are inexorably drawn to one another, they need one another in order to exist. ’Couple/Regards/Positions (le mariage de l’eau avec le feu)’ forms an essa...
Artists and filmmakers can be unusual people. Of those unusual people, Boris Lehman is very unusual indeed. He has unusual obsessions, for instance with his hair, and he also makes very obsessive films about it. Innocent and humorous obsessions. Touching too.
Boris Lehman had not cut his hair for more than two decades. It turned grey and dried out and something had to be done. ...