"La Terre de la folie / Land of Madness" film screening at Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate > 5:30pm & 7:30pm on 20th April 2012

Time : 5.30 pm & 7.30 pm

Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)

Place : M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Francaise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi - 110003

Landmark : Next to Annexe building of India International Centre

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Area : Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Details : 'La Terre de la folie / Land of Madness' film screening.
« The great-grand-nephew of the great-grandfather of my great-great-grandmother one day had killed the mayor of the village with a pick, his woman and the rural policeman, guilty
of having moved his goat from ten yards. It provided me a good starting point… There were many others behaviors of the same type in the family”.
Native of the Southern Alps, Luc Moullet noticed that cases of mental illness were particularly numerous in his region: murder, dismemberment, suicide, immolation among his family,
friends and the various "criminal affairs" of the last 100 years.
With his imperturbable seriousness and his irony, he takes note and studies the causes and the consequences of these local psychic phenomena. Moullet, the most burlesque director
of the Nouvelle Vague, deals with macabre stories, so much unusual that they become comic. He explores the cases of murderous dementia in his place of origin and it isn’t sad.
Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/land-of-madness

Director : Luc Moullet

Year : 2010

Duration : 90 mins

Theme for the Month : Stranger than Paradise

From the Italian Neorealism to the Brazilian Cinema Novo or the French New Wave, film directors have often been interested by dealing with the stories of marginal characters. First perceived as a source of fascination and lyricism, we must also consider that marginality is always relative: we are marginal in comparison to an institutionalized group at a certain moment, in a certain place and with reference to a social norm, moral or intellectual. Because it can serve the identification with some people who are usually outlawed from society cinema contributes to the evolution of social norm and barriers.

“The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the outlaw, the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.” 

Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

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