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Sleeping Beauties
Art Scenarios series
Editor(s) of the series: Alain Bergala
This series aims to analyze the major themes of painting with concepts generally applied to film. "The collection is not a catalog, still less an encyclopedia. Each film sets out freely on the paths of art history" (Alain Bergala).
Director(s): Alain Bergala
Genre
Documentary
Copyright
2001
Length
26 minutes
Producer(s)
Dominique Gibrail, Les Films du Tambour de Soie
Co-producer(s)
Musée d’Orsay, Centre Pompidou, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, La Cinquième / France 5, Musée du Louvre
Commercial distribution
France Télévision Distribution
Painted and sculpted images of sleeping women have always nourished the visual curiosity of artists and viewers alike. Obliviously exposing body and soul on the painted surface, these erotic heroines are the stuff of fantasy.