The Windmill(L’Eolienne)
Switzerland · 1974
47m
Director Michel Soutter
Starring Michel Schopfer, Arié Dzierlatka, Jean-Luc Bideau
Genre Documentary
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In preparation for a feature-length film about windmills, an assistant director travels through the Vaud region to search for locations with windmills. The research leads to a serious engagement with the meaning and purpose of windmills, which has something Don Quixote-like about it in the age of nuclear power stations. The transitions between document and fiction flow constantly and result in a charming and intellectual mixture of seriousness and fun, determination and coincidence, weightlessness and the weight of meaning.
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