Le Couloir ( Alain Gagnol& Jean-Loup Felicioli , 2004 )
"Le couloir" es un alucinante corto impregnado del característico estílo gráfico&ambiental del dúo Alain Gagnol & Jean-loup Felicioli, de los cuales también tenenemos disponibles en Cine-Clasico cuatro episodios de su serie Les tragedies minuscules y la nez a la fenetre .
Posee abundantes diálogos en francés ... tanto que sin conocer el idioma no os vais a enterar de lo que sucede
... aunque de todos modos se palpe el extraño ambiente que suele bañar los trabajos de estos animadores .
Os pego un comentario personal que comenta el argumento ... en inglés que extraje de ... algún sitio ( que chapuza por dios ) :
n the few days I’ve had my preview copy of The Corridor, I’ve watched it about six times, not including the time I dropped into Chunk Mode and found myself stopping to still-frame every 10 seconds. Unlike some pure eye candy I’ve had the pleasure of seeing in the past few years, I’ve been still-framing this movie to look for something more than good design: clues. The Corridor is a superb and superbly rare achievement — an animated short where story and design are so strong they could live independent lives in unrelated films, and you’re just as likely to hit “pause” to luxuriate in the visuals as you are to pick up a previously missed plot point.
Taking a welcome detour into the obsessive, claustrophobically subjective sci-fi plots that Jorge Luis Borges favored late in life, The Corridor is a story of a man forced to concentrate on empty space for a living who discovers to his shock that the less he sees, the curiouser it gets. He and his wife are introduced in their modest apartment, he sitting at the kitchen table waiting as she comes home. She didn’t get the raise, and he doesn’t have a job. Flirting with real hunger, he tries to get out in the fresh air for a change, but as his blood sugar drops he passes an art gallery with carved plaster Moai in the windows and stares as the sculpture chews on an imaginary, impossible meal.
An old man wakes him; he’d passed out in front of the boutique and the owner of the shop had taken him inside. The young man thanks him and is about to go on his way when the old man makes him an offer; he might have a job the young man would be perfect for. The boutique owner seems harmless enough — a one-note sculptor/painter with a thing for primitive figures, a storefront gallery to sell them in, and an old 78 of Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five doing “Basin Street Blues” making endless circles on the gramophone. The next day the young man starts working for him.
Work is down the stairs and through a curtained doorway, in a small corridor. He has to sit there all day — not reading, not dozing — and make sure NOBODY gets into the room at the other end of the corridor, 20 feet away. The young man looks at the door, looks at the three street-level windows with bars in them at the top of the wall, and has a very impatient two days of doing what he thinks is either the stupidest job in history or a scam on the old man’s part whose purpose he can only guess.
But despite the condescension of his wife, despite the fact that he never sees a thing coming or going in the hallway, he soon becomes obsessed with his job. A newfound concentration starts buzzing in him like the evening’s first glass of wine. His senses become acute. When the boss asks him to work overnight one night, he gladly agrees, and stays right through his shift the next day. One afternoon he’s looking hard and leaning forward to hear what he thinks are approaching footsteps, and to his shock the old man appears in the middle of the corridor coming toward him. The old man tells him he’s been walking this corridor every day and it’s the first time the young man has noticed. “Congratulations,” the proprietor says. “It’s a great step forward.”
The young man becomes so alienated from his wife, she leaves him; the old man becomes so confident in his progress he leaves the boutique in his assistant’s care while he goes away for what he promises won’t be “more than a week or two… make sure you keep alert.” By the time the promise of thieves turns into a real burglary, the weird quotient has already gone a few bumps past tilt, but the weirdness that follows is enough to knock this cinematic pinball machine fully onto its side.
When this Folimage/Film Bilder production comes to video in the U.S. (and it will, dammit — think positively people!), prospective fans, as I’ve mentioned, will be stopping and starting this film in search of both aesthetic pleasure and clues to what the hell happened. The visuals are traditionally animated drawings in chalk and inks, and human anatomy takes on a beautiful eccentricity, with long graceful noses, pointy diamond eyes and gracefully arching limbs reminiscent of the paintings of Amedeo Modigliani or Mark Gertler. The drama is tight as a drum, with the action moving forward briskly and relentlessly like a post-war noir. With all these elements working simultaneously at such a high level it’s big fun indeed.
Si algún voluntario se presta a traducir&sintetizar el argumento y pegarlo por aquí será bienvenid@ ... si no, trataré de hacerlo cuando tenga tiempo.
Os comento, que el corto de por sí vale la pena verlo ya sólo sea por contemplar el particular estilo de estos creadores ( idéntico caso al resto de sus cortos disponibles ) tanto en lo visual como en el enfoque narrativo, aunque conociendo el argumento que se cita, se comprende plenamente de ahí que enfatize dicha solicitud por carencias temporales propias .
Sea como sea, altamente recomendado este y todos sus trabajos
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Plenty dialogue in french ... no subs
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