Symmetries, repetitions and variations – Mozart's C-minor Mass in A man escaped by Robert Bresson

Authors

  • Luíza Beatriz Amorim Melo Alvim Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2014.1.14279

Keywords:

Robert Bresson, Cinema, Music

Abstract

In the films of the french director Robert Bresson, especially in those from the intermediary phase of his career, preexistent classical music was commonly utilized and the distribution of these musical parts in the film guard analogies with the original piece. In A man escaped (1956), choral and instrumental parts from the Kyrie of Mozart´s C-minor Mass are symmetrically distributed in the film, what recalls the very symmetry of Mozart´s Classicism. The music also symbolizes the way of the main character, a prisoner during the Second World War, who has to pass from solitude to communication with the others in order to escape.

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Author Biography

Luíza Beatriz Amorim Melo Alvim, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Doutora em Comunicação pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

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Published

2014-06-03

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Amorim Melo Alvim, L. B. (2014). Symmetries, repetitions and variations – Mozart’s C-minor Mass in A man escaped by Robert Bresson. Revista FAMECOS, 21(1), 329–351. https://doi.org/10.15448/1980-3729.2014.1.14279

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Vol. 21 No. 1 (2014)

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