This is of course Ludwig van Beethoven’s 6th Symphony with the well-known epigraph of the manuscript “Pastoral Symphony, or Recollection of Country Life, which is more an expression of emotion than a descriptive painting”. Paired with some motifs from The Ruins of Athens and Cantata Op. 112, The Pastoral invokes Hellenic Antiquity, as a place of nostalgia and artistic perfection, from the pain of an endless desire to the bliss of the original light.
Producer
Les Films Figures Libres
Co-production
ARTE France / MEZZO / TVPI
Country
France
Directed by
Patrick Lauze
Camera
Gaëtan LOMENECH/Fabien MOGABURE/Isabelle AUDIGÉ/Norbert CORNE/Etienne MONIER
Duration
78 minutes
Year of production
2020