What a Flash! (1972)
Directed by Jean-Michel Barjol
Comedy / Fantasy
What a Flash! (1972)
Film Synopsis
The Beatnik movement was at its height when the filmmaker Jean-Michel Barjol conceived his wildest idea for a film - to bring together two hundred people from the performing arts and force them two spend three whole days together in a film studio. In what is so obviously the forerunner to today's reality television, Barjol's experimental film sees actors, musicians, painters and other artists acting out 72 hours in their lives in the presence of fifteen cameras. Amidst this ferment of talent we glimpse some familiar faces - Bernadette Lafont, Tonie Marshall and Jean-Claude Dreyfus - but for the most part it resembles a zany collage of humanity that vividly evokes the essence of the May 68 protests and the hippy movement...© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Jean-Michel Barjol
- Script: Jean-Michel Barjol
- Cinematographer: Renan Pollès
- Cast: Kavi Alexander, Jérôme Bavoulène, Georges Bécot, Alain Bellaïche, Jean-Michel Boissier, Guy-Louis Duboucheron, Jean-Yves Bouvier, Patrick Burke, Chris, Jean-Pierre Coffe, Catherine Faux, Jacques Collard, Pierre Dagain, Alain Dariès, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Marie-France Deblacker, Pierre Devis, Patrick Despery, Djalma, Dominique Dobrynine
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Support: Color
- Runtime: 95 min
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