« Opening Night » et la remédiation théâtrale. « Film-balade » ou film « tragique »?
Drawing both on Deleuze’s critique of “the new Hollywood” and on the metaphysical dialectics of Apollo and Dionysus as expressed in Nietzsche’s "The Birth of Tragedy", this essay will look at some of the means through which theater inhabits the movies. Then, it will slightly shift from the usual focus — and shed new light — on the concept of adaptation by delving on the “filming of theater” (as opposed to the more generic “theater on film”). Its starting point will be the 1977 movie "Opening Night", shot by John Cassavetes, in which the director (and cinema in general) exploits the middle-age crisis of an actress to create anew for the theater.
Deleuze, Gilles Nietzsche, Friedrich