Enigma (1988)

Directed by

Jean Rouch

Genre

documentary film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A mysterious person hires a forger to paint a canvas that the artist Giorgio de Chirico never completed during his stay in Turin in 1911. The film recreates the mood of de Chirico's metaphysical art by focusing on the city's architecture and the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche.

meditativemysteriouscontemplativeatmosphericslow-pacedmetaphysicalambientphilosophical

What happens

Enigma è un film del 1988 diretto da Alberto Chiantaretto, Marco di Castri, Daniele Pianciola e Jean Rouch. Un misterioso personaggio incarica un falsario di dipingere il quadro che Giorgio de Chirico durante il suo soggiorno a Torino nel 1911 non riuscì a realizzare. L'atmosfera del film vuole ricreare le suggestioni dell'arte metafisica di De Chirico insistendo sull'aspetto architettonico della città e sul pensiero di Friedrich Nietzsche che risiedette in questa città quando fu colto dalla pazzia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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