1975 Louis Malle film (what dialogue there is is in U.K.-English)
The camerawork is slightly tighter than in 'Le Souffle', with more singles, though still with the Malle relatively mobile camera, average edit, and pretty long takes. Malle does incorparate much of the time a number of actors in a frame, but with this has a habit of moving from one to the other and leaving the original actor, or reactor, behind.
This contributes to a film that doesn't really create a world, but does make thematic points. It is about how imagination relates to social difficulties, how one can hide in imagination, and how the two meet. Malle creates, with the sharp images, some curious fantasy sequences, often of animals. His studies of insects are most impressive. The evocation of the 'war', as indeed the world, is pretty abstract, and this film isn't perhaps more than a fable, but it creates some curious juxtapostions all the same. An interesting work.
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