
Balthus Through the Looking Glass
Balthus Through the Looking-Glass is a 1996 French documentary film directed by Damian Pettigrew on the French painter Balthus.
Plot
The feature length documentary highlights the painter's complex creative process with rare footage of the artist at work in his studio in the Swiss mountain village of Rossinière. Conversations with Balthus and his wife Setsuko, his daughter Harumi, his sons Stanislaus and Thadée, interviews with art critics Jean Leymarie, Jean Clair, Pierre Rosenberg, and James Lord, and with French painter François Rouan (who often assisted Balthus during his tenure at the Villa Medici), contribute to form a psychological portrait of a secretive and controversial artist.
Cast
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author | Damian Pettigrew |
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director | Damian Pettigrew |
editor | Florence Ricard |
keywords | art critic controversial artist creative process feature length french painter henri cartier-bresson irving penn james lord jean leymarie mountain village pierre rosenberg rossinière villa medici |
musicBy | François Cahen |
producer | Olivier Gal Planète |
publisher | Arte |
theme | documentary |