Balançoires
A young couple go to the carnival. After some savage heavy petting they meet a sinister fakir who offers to sell them Truth for six sous. A set of uncanny events follow. At worst 'avant-gardist' in the extreme, at best the counterpart to Cœur Fidèle's 'fête foraine' sequence after the abolition of melodrama. Excellent black screen cutting and chaotic camera shaking characterize the style.
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| Year | 1928 |
| Director | Noël Renard |
| Runtime | 25 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 8.5/10 (5 votes) |
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Balançoires dismantles the carnival of narrative, leaving only the raw machinery of sensation. Deslaw's aggressive editing and chaotic camerawork create a purely visceral experience, a stark counterpoint to the poetic fairground of Cœur Fidèle.
What lingers after the final black screen is not a story, but the phantom feeling of vertigo and the unsettling taste of a truth purchased too cheaply. It is avant-garde cinema at its most defiantly abstract. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Noël Renard
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Carnival dizziness, the queasy thrill of a swing's descent, whispers swallowed by crowd noise.
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