Movie: If I Had Four Dromedaries

Top 7 Billed Cast

Pierre Vaneck
Pierre Vaneck

Récitant (voice)

Nicolas Youmatoff
Nicolas Youmatoff

Récitant (voice)

Catherine Le Couey
Catherine Le Couey

Récitante (voice)

Tatyana Lavrova
Татьяна Лаврова

Self (photo)

Tatyana Samoylova
Татьяна Самойлова

Self (photo)

Samuel Feijóo
Samuel Feijóo

Self (photo)

Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett

Self (photo)

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    Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries stages a probing, at times agitated, search for the meanings of the photographic image, in the form of an extended voiceover conversation and debate between the "amateur photographer" credited with the images and two of his colleagues. Anticipating later writings by Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag (who professed her admiration for the film) If I Had Four Dromedaries reveals Marker's instinctual understanding of the secret rapport between still and moving image.

  • Release Date

    1966-11-01

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    7

  • Rating:

    3.5 starts
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  • Languages:

    Français

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