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  • La beauté du geste (2004)
  • 97 min | Documentary
La beauté du geste (2004)
97 min | Documentary

-While recent technological developments are pulling cinema towards electronic abstraction (digital cameras, editing on Avid) and that even the film archives are beset by the "digital dragon", as Asian archivists like to say, "La beauté du...See more-While recent technological developments are pulling cinema towards electronic abstraction (digital cameras, editing on Avid) and that even the film archives are beset by the "digital dragon", as Asian archivists like to say, "La beauté du geste" celebrates the mechanical cinema, playful relative of the railroad and the assembly line, whose the futuristic beauty of which was sung by the classic Soviet cinema. While we talk about downloading and satellite-powered cinemas, Jeanne Crépeau films the journey of the reels between the storage facilities in Boucherville and the screening room in Montreal (Canada). See less
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Jeanne Crépeau (co-cinematographer) | Jacques Leduc (co-cinematographer)
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Updated Feb 21, 2004

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Feb 21, 2004 (Canada)

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24 cast members
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Guy L. Coté
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Guy Fournier
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Sylvia Ipirautaq Cloutier
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Christophe Paradis
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June Shappa
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Gabriel Thibaudeau
Self (pianist) Self (pianist)   See fewer
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