 Le Clan (Gaël Morel 2004): Lac de Genève & Haute Savoie Maps often appear in television weather reports or news broadcasts, as background (as above) or foregrounded as a motif (as below):  Where the Heart Is (Matt Williams 2000): United States - Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas Here are eight further instances of maps on tv screens in films:  In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks 1966)  The Man Who Fell To Earth (Nicolas Roeg 1976): United States  Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako 2006): Mali  Love & Human Remains (Denys Arcand 1993): Canada  Caché (Michael Haneke 2005): Africa & the Americas  La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol 1995): Europe  Pola X (Leos Carax 1999): France  Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 (Alain Tanner 1976): Switzerland  'He isn’t narrative, we can only just sense that he once was narrative; he is physical. What has happened? He is, for us, a character endowed with a certain weight and with a paper surface. We have the assurance that he is readable, that he is hidden, that nothing is written on him, hence that he is indecipherable. Even before that, it’s the certainty that this is a game, that this paper’s weight isn’t destined to last, that we alone will be able to read the map in which he has become stuck like an insect.' Jean-Louis Schefer, 'La Carte routière', in L'Homme ordinaire du cinéma (Paris: Gallimard-Cahiers du cinéma, 1997), p.67. |
