Based on fourteen poems by Max Jacob put to music by Henri Sauguet and Robert Caby, Carte de visite is a particularly vibrant and faithful tribute to the overlooked great poet. Michel Zumpf makes good use of cinema and directs his film just like Max Jacob changed poetry and risked his life – in a unique and unsettling harmony between the most studied seriousness and the wildest imagination.
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From a poem by Antonin Artaud to the pantomimes of Pierrot, between Paris and London, this enchanting suite of musical drifts composes words and faces, beings and places.