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Mississippi Blues (film)
''Mississippi Blues'' is a 1983 French documentary film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and Robert Parrish. Synopsis The documentary explores the musical heritage of the Southern United States, American South, with a focus on black musicians. The film takes viewers to various locations, including William Faulkner's home, Black church, black churches, and Sharecropping, sharecroppers' shacks, showcasing the region's boogie-woogie, gospel, and blues music. It features music and interviews including a man's instructions on finding, catching, and cooking Virginia opossum, possum. The film also examines themes of religion and African American political activity. Production It was filmed in Oxford, Mississippi in 1982, after Tavernier concluded work on ''Coup de Torchon,'' an adaptation of Jim Thompson (writer), Jim Thompson's 1964 novel ''Pop. 1280''. Tavernier was inspired to examine the inspiration of the characters in the works. Release The film was screened at the Locarno F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer. Life and career Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. He said his father's publishing of a wartime resistance journal and aid to anti-Nazi intellectuals shaped his moral outlook as an artist. According to Tavernier, his father believed that words were "as important and as lethal as bullets". Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker from the age of 13 or 14 years. He said that his cinematic influences included filmmakers John Ford, William Wellman, Jean Renoir, Jean Vigo and Jacques Becker. Tavernier was influenced by the 1968 general strike in France. He associated with the OCI between 1973 and 1975, and was particularly struck by the writing of Leon Trotsky. The first film director with whom he worked was Jean-Pierre Melville. Later, his first fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |