Movie Details
Original Language:French
Breakfast at Marubi
DirectorAnri Sala
1 minDocumentary
Plot
Anri Sala created the encounter between his Albanian heritage a snapshot of the famous Studio Marubi which had introduced photography into the Balkans as from end of the 19TH century and a masterpiece of French art Le Déjeuner sur lherbe by Édouard Manet in an incongruous juxtaposition We can see three women in traditional costume busying themselves around a sewing machine the view is frontal the pose frozen a pure Studio Marubi snapshot The insertion of a detail from Le Déjeuner sur lherbe within this image looks like an accidental encounter introducing colours and nudity into a very classic photo The characters in Déjeuner are gradually swallowed up by the sewing machine which soon will have finished weaving a traditional dress for the naked young woman painted by Manet making her similar to the seamstresses In less than a minute and in a manner apparently light even poetic Anri Sala touches on the main themes so dear to this work
