Women In Nylon Stockings

Les Herbes Folles.

Thanks to the interest of the Russian formalists to discern in what was characterized all poetry, Shlovsky, one of the most recognized formalist, formulated a concept that seemed to make the difference between everyday language and the poetic. It was the estrangement. This concept is defined as the art was getting to weird objects, make them special desautomatizarlos and give one or more new meanings. In the words of Sholosvky

" create complex shapes, increasing the difficulty and extent of perception, since, in aesthetics, the process of perception is an end in itself and, therefore, should be extended "

words, the estrangement is singling. It is the transfer between the conventional and special. But there is another concept that I believe relevant formal remark: The reason. Tomas hevsky thought that everything was not essential in a narrative was a reason.

Therefore, it is not insignificant that a creator as unique as itself as Alain Resnais formalistic. If you look at his latest film, Les Herbes Folles, we see how history can turn a conventional appearance (A man who becomes obsessed by a woman) into something much more special by staging (estrangement). Resnais achieves nothing obvious narrative solutions, as if to the story, in form and, therefore, in the background, constantly flee so than usual as the rational. His characters are left to form, acting on impulse and work at times seems to focus on reasons (be it a dream or a digression in the narrative).

His genius for the handling of film language, since the camera moves to the use of color in each scene, allows you to recreate a particular universe, random, beautiful, mysterious, playing with the projection of the imaginations of the characters, with a dreamlike nothing obvious. Each scene seems ready to impress an experiment in form and challenge the viewer. About