anti-talking heads film

French translation: votre film prend le contrepied des films à bla-bla

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English term or phrase:anti-talking heads film
French translation:votre film prend le contrepied des films à bla-bla
Entered by: Madeleine Rossi

18:10 Jan 20, 2013
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama
English term or phrase: anti-talking heads film
You challenge this idea of truth through the mise en scene of speech. Through this way of working, your film results in the ultimate **anti-talking heads film**. It is a film that through the mise en scene of speech challenges the boundaries of languages and the idea of truth that comes with it.

-> rhaaa, je l'ai sur le bout de la langue! Ce documentaire met en scène des opposants (politiques), et la mise en scène fait donc qu'il s'inscrit aux antipodes des... rhaaaa, de ces films où l'on ne fait que parler!!!

Désolée, je suis à la bourre et très fatiguée...

:-)
Madeleine Rossi
Switzerland
Local time: 11:28
votre film prend le contrepied des films à bla-bla
Explanation:
ou nombrilistes
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jmleger
Local time: 05:28
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Merci!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2votre film prend le contrepied des films à bla-bla
jmleger
4 +1l'anti film tête parlante
FX Fraipont (X)
3films intimistes
Christine Correcher
1 +1film anti talk-show/débats télévisés
Françoise Vogel


  

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films intimistes


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Christine Correcher
Local time: 11:28
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film anti talk-show/débats télévisés


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Françoise Vogel
Local time: 11:28
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agree  GILOU
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
l'anti film tête parlante


Explanation:
un "talking head movie", c'est une film, vidéo ou documentaire ou on voit le tête d'un personnage qui raconte

"Dresden Story and the Emergence of the Talking Head in the NFB ...
http://www.filmstudies.ca/.../baker-dresden-story-talking-he...
17.2 : 2008 : PDF: Dresden Story and the Emergence of the Talking Head in the ... le développement de la « tête parlante » dans les documentaires de l'Office ..."

"Mungo calls the documentary a “talking head movie.’’ Not only is his head on the screen a lot, it’s also the subject of one of his stories, relating his mother’s opinion that his head was exceptionally large."
http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2011/10/06/newburyp...

"La vidéo contre le cinéma: Neige electronique - - Volume 1 - Page 221 - Google Books Result
http://books.google.com/books?isbn=2296488749
Vincent Heristchi - 2012
273 Wim Wenders explique que «la télévision a éliminé la beauté du plan ... La "tête parlante" (talking head) est devenue l'image électronique standard. Et c'est ..."


FX Fraipont (X)
Belgium
Local time: 11:28
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 198

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jocelyne Cuenin: Talking heads : l'idée des plans cadrés sur le visage d'hommes-tronc au regard caméra (ils regardent droit devant eux, on se concentre sur leur bouche / visage et en quelque sorte ils remplacent la voix off qui détient la vérité, quelque chose du genre
15 hrs
  -> merci !
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
votre film prend le contrepied des films à bla-bla


Explanation:
ou nombrilistes

jmleger
Local time: 05:28
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 31
Grading comment
Merci!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Françoise Vogel: voilà qui est clair
15 mins

agree  Christine Correcher: ou des films pontifiants
10 hrs
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