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Jean-Louis Bertucelli's Ramparts of Clay, Friday, March...
...even tell my students (she is currently Hurst Professor of Creative Literature at Brandeis University) to avoid writing that kind of poetry, poetry about painting. Film is much more important to me now than painting. Such really beautiful things can happen in film, you know. Did you ever see Bertucelli's 'Ramparts of Clay'?" This is a film about a strike in a small Tunisian desert village. "You have? That one scene, where the heroine is drawing water from the well, and she keeps turning and turning the handle for what seems like an eternity... That image says so much...
BURDEN HALL West European Studies and Arts Across the River present Jean-Louis Bertucelli and his films Ramparts of Clay, May 4, 8 p.m., Paulina...
...primitive art. Actually Ramparts of Clay is one of the most sophisticated protest films ever made. Like The Battle of Algiers, it is a re-creation of an actual incident, recalled in a spirit of quiet fury. Working with only two professional actors, the maiden and the official. Bertucelli persuaded the inhabitants of a remote village-who had never seen a motion-picture camera-to perform their lives without a trace of self-consciousness or restraint. As a result, watching Ramparts of Clay is like looking at the sun-almost unendurable for long. The ritual slaughter...
...from a sociological study, Ramparts seems to have begun as a propaganda movie. It has succeeded, but not as intended. Its politics have been diverted by the villagers and bleached by the African sun. If this evocative work manages to "sell" anything, it is the idea of Jean-Louis Bertucelli, 28, as a director of fresh and major significance...