Le Jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Filmmaker Jean Eustache reconstructed an evening among friends — of which he was a witness a few years ago — during which a fan of Jérôme Bosch, the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq, engaged in a very personal commentary on the painting _The Garden of Earthly Delights_.
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After the contribution from his friend the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq in A Dirty Story (a tale of sordid and allusive voyeurism), Jean Eustache renews the experience three years later in an analogue creation. Secretly observed female genitals are replaced by a universally renowned masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. In both cases, the aim is to unveil, in words rather than through image, what art and sex conceal or repress. In front of a small and friendly audience, this improvised exegesis comments on the third panel of the primitive triptych, where the Flemish artist depicts Hell, amidst which fishermen, beasts, monsters and humanoids indulge in acts that are far more akin to torture than to delight. The filmmaker’s edit organises this chaos of chopped bodies into a scene that is as coherent as Bosch’s own composition.
Hervé Gauville
Writer and critic
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Le jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
34 mn
Language: Multilang
- Année 1981
- Pays France
- Durée 34
- Producteur INA
- Langue French
- Résumé court A fan of Hieronymus Bosch offers a highly personal commentary on one of his paintings.
- Ordre 4
After the contribution from his friend the psychoanalyst Jean-Noël Picq in A Dirty Story (a tale of sordid and allusive voyeurism), Jean Eustache renews the experience three years later in an analogue creation. Secretly observed female genitals are replaced by a universally renowned masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. In both cases, the aim is to unveil, in words rather than through image, what art and sex conceal or repress. In front of a small and friendly audience, this improvised exegesis comments on the third panel of the primitive triptych, where the Flemish artist depicts Hell, amidst which fishermen, beasts, monsters and humanoids indulge in acts that are far more akin to torture than to delight. The filmmaker’s edit organises this chaos of chopped bodies into a scene that is as coherent as Bosch’s own composition.
Hervé Gauville
Writer and critic
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Le jardin des délices de Jérôme Bosch
Duration: 34 minutesLanguage: Multilang34 mn
- Année 1981
- Pays France
- Durée 34
- Producteur INA
- Langue French
- Résumé court A fan of Hieronymus Bosch offers a highly personal commentary on one of his paintings.
- Ordre 4
