Europe After the Rain
Time Out says
As an idiosyncratic anthology of Dadaist and Surrealist artifacts and attitudes, Gold's film for the Arts Council is fine. A chock-full collage of texts, reproduced artworks, actual footage and dramatised reconstructions, it constantly unearths delights, both visual and aural (some strictly tangential, such as Joan Bakewell interviewing Marcel Duchamp). But as an analysis of the movements' aesthetic ideas, aims and achievements, it flounders: by reducing the 20th century historical and cultural context to two world wars, plus the thought of Freud and Trotsky; and by crucially failing to make adequate distinction between 'authentic' surrealism and its latter-day manifestations in, for instance, cigarette advertising and TV comedy.
Details
Release details
Duration:
88 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Mick Gold
Screenwriter:
Mick Gold
Cast:
Marcel Duchamp
Max Ernst
Nickolas Grace
Michael Harbour
Dennis Clinton
Max Ernst
Nickolas Grace
Michael Harbour
Dennis Clinton
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