Regarde Jonathan - Jean Louvet, son oeuvre (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne,1983) EN

Look at Jonathan - Jean Louver, his work (1983) highlights the work of dissident playwright Jean Louvet through highly impressionist montages (a lone boxer, moving trains, dancing feet) and Brechtian restagings of his work (dramatic readings, minimalist sets, and snippets of text). The Dardennes interview Louvet, who co-founded the Proletarian Theatre of La LouviËre after the Belgian worker demonstrations of 1960, and the playwright’s stream-of-conscious reflections on his craft combined with the Dardennes’ visual experimentation make for a very dense and heady experience. (One of their sets of a worker’s camp, in fact, anticipates Von Trier’s visual aesthetic in Dogville, the Dardennes’ abandoned train tracks and sporadic fire pits within a dark, theatrical arena evokes the same merging of exterior and interior space.)