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Gestes du repas
This satirical ethnographic film shows eating Belgians in diverse contexts. Gestes du repas captures authentic moments starring workers, peasants, and middle-class people in their most familiar habitat. Dinner scenes at weddings, funerals, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve portray a country: loneliness and community alternate, just as wealth and poverty.
Bio Luc de Heusch
Luc de Heusch (1927-2012) was a Belgian filmmaker, writer and social anthropologist. He was a prominent figure both in art and academia, especially in Francophone milieus. As a filmmaker, he started out as an assistant to Belgian filmmaker Henri Storck. In 1951, using the pseudonym Luc Zangrie, he directed his first film Perséphone, the only film produced under the auspices of the artistic movement CoBrA. He produced a series of films on major artists such as Pierre Alechinsky, Christian Dotremont, Reinhoud, James Ensor, René Magritte, Pierre Lahaut, and Michel de Ghelderode, among others. Along with his friend Jean Rouch, de Heusch was one of the most prominent advocates of visual anthropology, making several documentaries on various parts of Central and West Africa. His other films include Gestes du repas (1958), a film on eating habits in Belgium, Libre examen (1968), a film about the student revolt of the 1960s and Jeudi on chantera comme dimanche (1967), his only fiction film. (Avila)
Credits
Script
Jacques Delcorde, Luc de Heusch
Cast
Dario Moreno, Paul Anrieu
Camera
Charles Abel
Sound
Paul Leponce
Music
Fernand De Geneffe
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