Review and Analysis of French Dada Film: Entr'acte

 
 
The film Entr'acte, directed by Rene Clair in 1924, in many ways illustrates an important goal of the Dada movement. The second half of the film which involves a bourgeoisie funeral procession specifically depicts what the artists of the Dada movement were after. I suggest that the funeral procession scene, by it's use of several camera techniques, draws the viewer into the frenzy of the film, a goal that the Dada artists were after.The whole funeral procession scene is a chase that Rene Clair intends to make the audience a part of. Several camera techniques are employed to create a dizzying, frenzied affect on the viewer. Close-up shots of the spinning wheels of the hearse, often followed by shots of the mourner's pumping legs, bring the viewer up close to the chase. Several camera technique are often layered. Examples of this are cars superimposed over the chase scene, at a sped up rate or superimposition of the rapid tracking of some generic sc
 
 


The aim of Rene Claire, as well as the other Dadaist involved in the film, was to draw the audience in and provoke them, make then laugh, or hiss, but to have a reaction and to throw away their old conceptions of what not only art, but life, was about. It seems that the film met the aims of the Dada movement quite well. New York: Lorrimer Publishing Limited, 1970. The last sentence of that quote seems to almost describe the sequence itself, "Rough, bouncing, riding on hiccups. Another effect used to draw the viewer into the excitement is the rollercoaster. From his quote, we get the feeling that Dadaism is about movement, change, irrationality, much of what the funeral scene depicts. Towards the end of the film, several fragmented scenes are shot in succession, rapidly from one to the next. Celia McGerr noted in her biography of Rene Clair that, "The sequence leaves one almost breathless. Some topics in this essay:
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