Samuel Ganes

Un réalisateur Taïwanais est invité à tourner l'histoire de Salomé au Musée du Louvres. Malgré sa réputation, il tient absolument à confier le rôle du roi Hérode à Jean-Pierre Léaud. Pour donner à ce film au budget modeste une chance au box office, la production s'est résolue à confier le rôle de Salomé à une star de renommée internationale. Mais dès le début du tournage, les problèmes s'accumulent...

Through the lyricism and the baroque energy of the famous Christmas oratorio, super-8 pictures with a prevailing black colour catch in a jerky way an elfic trio of merry male accompplices wandering through the Père Lachaise cemetery. Some sentences taken from ‘Le Dictionnaire de l’Amour’ by Dominique Noguez make their complicity clear and are used as a counterpoint to the ballet of their loitering.

The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual) seduces the young male prey with a running cinema projector which carves Murnau's Nosferatu extracts on their bodies. Metamorphosis, rituals passages, Eros and Thanotos, illusion and reality, film into the film are the themes and images in perpetual osmosis in this Stéphane Marti's opus.

Halleluia : one of the most beautiful prayers in the world, a magnificent and distributing piece from Leonard Cohen, wavering between the sacred and the profane, suggesting pain, pleasure, lust, and lost physical love ; a mournful eroticism chanted with sensuality and formidable grace by Jeff Buckley, an inspired performer/angel. Hence my deep desire to project my own ritual of images on its spellbinding lyrics. S.M

Two merry partners, fleshy roses and an improvised dance celebrate this glamrock jewel that glorifies the ambiguity of desire.