5.8 /10 1 Votes
Directed by Jean Rouch Music by Mauricio Smith Production
company Les Films du Jeudi Director Jean Rouch Cinematography Jean Rouch | 5.8/10 IMDb Produced by Pierre Braunberger Edited by Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte Initial release 3 September 1984 Producer Pierre Braunberger Written by Euzhan Palcy, Jean Rouch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Jean Monod
Hélène Puiseux Nominations Golden Lion, Volpi Cup for Best Actress, Grand Jury Prize, Volpi Cup for Best Actor, Technical Prize Similar Jaguar, Cock‑a‑Doodle‑Doo! Mr Chicken, Les maîtres fous, The Human Pyramid, I - a Negro | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dionysos le jour le plus froid du monde
Dionysos is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Jean Rouch, starring Jean Monod and Hélène Puiseux. It tells the story of an American drama teacher who after writing a thesis on Dionysus tries to combine Dionysian rites with the work at a car factory, in an attempt to create the world's first car built in joyous frenzy. The film competed at the 41st Venice International Film Festival. It was released in France on 3 December 1986.
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Reception
Harlan Kennedy of American Cinema Papers described the film as "entirely lunatic" in his report from Venice, and wrote: "It's like a 60s hippy charging round the icon-scape of 80s Capitalism with a Super-8 camera and hoping meaning will accrue from the whir of disconnected imagery."
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