The Glass Fortress (film)
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| The Glass Fortress | |
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| File:Film2016-TheGlassFortress.jpg The Glass Fortress (2016) - Film Poster | |
| Directed by | Alain Bourret |
| Written by | Alain Bourret (as Alan B) Yevgeni Zamyatin (novel) |
| Starring | Alain Bourret Pierre-Antoine Piter Amélie De Swarte |
| Cinematography | Fanny Storck |
| Edited by | Fanny Storck |
| Music by | Rémi Orts |
Production company | Neva Prod |
Release date | April 2016 |
Running time | 28:30 |
| Country | French |
| Language | English |
The Glass Fortress is a 2016 French science fiction short film directed by Alain Bourret. The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united scientific-progressivist state.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The film is based on the 1921 novel We by the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin and is related to We (a classic 1982 German film), La Jetée[3] (a classic 1962 French photomontage film), 12 Monkeys (a very popular classic 1995 American film by director Terry Gilliam) and to THX 1138[3] (a 1971 American film by director George Lucas).
Plot
One thousand years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.[2]
Cast
- Alain Bourret (as Alan B) as Narrator
- Pierre-Antoine Piter as D-503/Daniel
- Amélie De Swarte as I-330/Iris
- Julien Prost as The Well-Doer
- Alexandre Bourret as The Spokesman
- Axel Bourret as The Assistant Engineer
- Axel Bourret as The Doctor
- Fanny Storck as The Nurse
Reception
The Glass Fortress is an experimental film that employs a technique known as freeze frame, and is shot in black-and-white, which help support the grim atmosphere of the story's dystopian society.[2] The film is technically similar to La Jetée (1963), directed by Chris Marker, and refers somewhat to THX 1138 (1971), by George Lucas, in the "religious appearance of the Well Doer".[3] According to film critic Isabelle Arnaud, The Glass Fortress has a special atmosphere underlining a story of thwarted love that will be long remembered.[4]
See also
- La Jetée, a film with a similar photomontage style
- We, a 1982 film based on the same novel
References
- ^ Real, Willi (2015). "The Glass Fortress, based upon Yevgeny Zamyatin's We (first published in an English translation in 1924)". Academia.edu. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ a b c Wittick, Louis (June 6, 2016). "The Glass Fortress". SciFi4Ever.com. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ a b c d Staff (April 29, 2016). "The Glass Fortress". ClockWorks2.org. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ a b Staff (2018). "The Glass Fortress : Le court métrage". UnificationFrance.com (in French). Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ Vialo, Orianne (June 27, 2016). "La dystopie au coeur de l'adaptation de Nous Autres, par Alain Bourret". ActuaLitte.com (in French). Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ Staff (2016). "Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Film". Rémi Orts. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ Staff (2016). "Rémi Orts Project & Alan B – The Glass Fortress - Music". Rémi Orts. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
- ^ Staff (2016). "The Glass Fortress". Facebook. Retrieved July 12, 2018.
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