Discover Our Marcel Ophuls Exhibition - Film Secession

Описание: The expansive and absorbing documentary films of Marcel Ophuls (1927-2025) open up new perspectives on the complexities of history and the perennial challenges of justice and memory.

For his seminal film about life in Occupied France, The Sorrow and the Pity (1969, clip), the perspectives of political luminaries like Anthony Eden are juxtaposed with those of small shopkeepers. The results are often surprising and belie easy judgment.

With Christian de La Mazière, a volunteer in the French Charlemagne Division of the Waffen SS, Ophuls stumbled upon such a rich subject that he structured the second half of his four-hour film around the choice described here (clip). The castle mise-en-scène is surreal and vaguely absurdist, but the responses are so profoundly disarming that all presumptions are thrown off and the viewer gains new insight into the human morass that was the filmmaker's great subject.

Explore Ophuls's work and legacy through our four-part portrait film (JOURNEYS, STORYTELLER, QUESTIONS OF STYLE, and A SENSE OF STRUCTURE) and our new Exhibition (including THE NAME ABOVE THE TITLE, ULTIMATE CONCERNS, SPACES AND MOVEMENTS, CINEMA VÉRITÉ AND ITS DISCONTENTS, THINK WITH YOUR HANDS, and CHOICES AND JUDGMENTS).

Marcel Ophuls Exhibition on Film Secession:
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Portrait of Marcel Ophuls (Lucas Bourgine, Lucq-de-Béarn, French Pyrenees, August 2021, Film Secession)

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