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Guy Moscardo and Jeanne Cavalero fall in love. But what at other times and places would be a simple affair of the heart turns at a fleapit called Alcazar into a cruel confrontation between ideological blocks: Guy sits in the first row centre, writes for <\/span>Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma<\/span><\/i>, and has understood that film’s greatest genius is Vittorio Cottafavi \u2013\u2013\u2013 Jeanne sits in the back somewhat to the side, writes for <\/span>Positif<\/span><\/i>, and has understood that film’s greatest genius is Michelangelo Antonioni. <\/span>How on earth is this supposed to end in happiness and bliss????????<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Luc Moullet started to write for <\/span>Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma <\/span><\/i>in 1956, and thus knows how many film historical liberties he took here – which are many! – to make his points about the madness of love and the idiocy of orthodoxy in a charmingly screwy and always ballsy fashion. When the film came out towards the end of the Cold War, it was easy to mistake it for a simple piece of nostalgic cinephile fun. The decades since have shown that <\/span>Les Si\u00e8ges de l’Alcazar<\/span><\/i> is about much more sinister, and far more general things than mere passion for the movies \u2013 but maybe we should again learn to love the movies as if they actually meant something, as if Cottafavi vs. Antonioni was indeed a matter of life and death?<\/span><\/p>\n

Olaf M\u00f6ller<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guy Moscardo and Jeanne Cavalero fall in love. But what at other times and places would be a simple affair of the heart turns at a fleapit called Alcazar into a cruel confrontation between ideological blocks: Guy sits in the first row centre, writes for Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma, and has understood that film’s greatest genius… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"featured_media":28747,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28749","movies","type-movies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","filters-master-classes-and-special-presentations","filters-olaf-moller","filters-subtitles-in-english-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Seats of the Alcazar — Midnight Sun Film Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Guy Moscardo and Jeanne Cavalero fall in love. 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