Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice

Name: Every Revolution Is a Throw of the Dice
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1977-12-07
Duration: 11 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Helmut Färber, Michel Delahaye, Georges Goldfayn, Danièle Huillet, Manfred Blank

Toute révolution est un coup de dés

6.4 (10)1977-12-0711m

DramaComedy

Overview

A tribute to Mallarmé that not only asserts the continuing relevance of his work but also confronts its literary ambiguities with political and cinematic ambiguities of its own. In outline, the film could not be more straightforward: it offers a recitation of one of Mallarmé’s most celebrated and complex poems (it was his last published work in his own lifetime, appearing in 1897, a year before his death) and proposes a cinematic equivalent for the author’s original experiment with typography and layout by assigning the words to nine different speakers, separating each speaker from the other as she or he speaks, and using slight pauses to correspond with white spaces on the original page.