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Lon la lune
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Wikipedia article
'Lon la lune' is a 1956 French short documentary film directed by Alain Jessua. The film won the Prix Jean Vigo in 1957. The film documents an old drifter in Paris in the 'poetic realist' style.
Jessua was inspired by Jean-Paul Clbert's book 'Paris Insolite' (1952) and decided to make a film about a 'clochard'Page 128, Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices edited by Stuart Hall or tramp. The poet and novelist Robert Giraud, an expert on the Parisian underworld, introduced Jessua to Lon la Lune, a vagrant whose real name was Leon Boudeville, and suggested that they follow him from day to night. After completing the film Giraud showed it to the poet and screenwriter Jacques Prvert who wrote an introduction and asked Henri Crolla to contribute some music to the film.
Lon la lune also appeared in the series 'Clochards' by Robert Doisneau, the pioneer of humanist photojournalism.
Cast
* Lon la Lune aka Leon Boudeville
See also
*Poetic realism
References
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