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'My Very Own Citizen Kane', Inspired by Godard and Fellini: Frans Weisz's Adaptation of Remco Campert's Het gangstermeisje
No Dutch filmmaker in the 1960s explored the connections between
cinema and an artistic undercurrent in art and literature as distinctly as Frans
Weisz. This is, first of all, proved by a prize-winning short commission film about
authors in search of a reader, which premiered at the Book Ball in 1965. Secondly,
his choice to collaborate with poet-novelist Remco Campert, which led to the novel
Het gangstermeisje (1966), is an attempt to adopt the mentality of the artistic
avant-garde from the 1950s into Dutch cinema. This novel, written by a cinephile,
takes cinema as an art form seriously. In turn, Weisz’s debut feature gives evidence
of an overriding ambition, which manifests itself in a hodgepodge of several highart
influences. Het gangstermeisje shares its deliberate narrative impasses with
Jean-Luc Godard’s Le mépris and Federico Fellini’s Otto e mezzo, while
...
Show moreNo Dutch filmmaker in the 1960s explored the connections between
cinema and an artistic undercurrent in art and literature as distinctly as Frans
Weisz. This is, first of all, proved by a prize-winning short commission film about
authors in search of a reader, which premiered at the Book Ball in 1965. Secondly,
his choice to collaborate with poet-novelist Remco Campert, which led to the novel
Het gangstermeisje (1966), is an attempt to adopt the mentality of the artistic
avant-garde from the 1950s into Dutch cinema. This novel, written by a cinephile,
takes cinema as an art form seriously. In turn, Weisz’s debut feature gives evidence
of an overriding ambition, which manifests itself in a hodgepodge of several highart
influences. Het gangstermeisje shares its deliberate narrative impasses with
Jean-Luc Godard’s Le mépris and Federico Fellini’s Otto e mezzo, while
stylistically inspired by Godard’s à bout de souffle. The history of Dutch cinema
illustrates, however, that fiction film could only prosper commercially once the
internationally oriented directors of the 1960s, like Weisz, sacrificed their artistic
aspirations for ‘national cinema’ as a model in the early 1970s.
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- Verstraten, P.W.J.
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- Verstraten P.W.J.
- Date
- 2017-07-25
- Journal
- Journal of Dutch Literature
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 60 - 74