The Ludwig Van Picture Show.//Jardins en automne

The fourth May date at the Palazzo Cini will be dedicated to Jardins en automne, a film by Otar Iosseliani starring Severine Blanchet, Lily Lavinia and the director himself.
The film – and here we come to the reason for its inclusion in this series – has no narrative but is an unfolding of musical forms whose underlying raison d’etre is to inform the visual representation of a cluster of events organised in a tightly woven time frame.
Nicholas Zourabichvili’s music “appears” throughout the film, accompanying the images with descriptive pieces, allegros from sonatas, antiphonies, at times gracefully dizzy with boozy inebriation, fanciful rondos, variations with or without themes, two-theme fugues, more or less complete developments, infinite recapitulations and returns to earlier themes.
Free entrance