User:JeanThéo14/Carnival in Flanders (film)



The men of the town grow increasingly paranoid of Spaniards as the women are free to run the stores and inns. The women from the outset take on a new set of sexual liberation in juxtaposition to the rape and pillaging stewed up from the men at the beginning of the film.

[Background and Production] The use of large paintings in the background of the film forced the disportioncate perspective that is a common motif in throughout the film. Things that can be added: The Actresses: Lyne Clevers (also in Le Grand Jeu), Maryse Wendling, Ginette Gaubert (the main supporting trio of women in the film) do not have an article.

- Key piece; Maryse Wendling became a Nun shortly after the completion of Carnival in Flanders.

Cinematography
The cinematographer for this film was frequent Jacques Feyder collaborator Harry Stradling Sr. A well-known cinematographer for films such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Funny Girl, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. He came over to France due to the restrictions to two-reelers, or films with a runtime of 20 minutes, in Hollywood. In France he would work on a number of Jacques Feyder’s films.

Much of the themes of the film are shown through the subtle camerawork Stradling bought to the picture. These range from lines in the set or poles separating the Duke and his wife, showing the audience the distance between the characters. In the imaginary pillaging of the town a wide shot is used to allow the viewer to take in all the destruction but also distance from the violence to keep the sarcastic nature of the sequence intact. The sequence also includes many camera movements such as pans, tilts or tracking shots to hide some of the more extreme acts that are suggested as women are being dragged away. The use of wide shots also aids in reinforcing the idea of a Flemish painting. Shots such as windmills on green pastures or all the activity happening in the town for preparation for the carnival.

Lead
Inclusion of: Created during the poetic realism period in 1930s France.