DESIGN & CINEMA: The Bride of Frankenstein (+ film analysis)
The Bride of Frankenstein by James Whale
USA, 1935, 1h15, VOSTF
with Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Douglas Walton
NUM, restored version
One stormy evening, in a vast mansion, Lord Byron congratulates Mary Shelley on writing Frankenstein. She then sets out to tell the sequel. As Frankenstein's creature resurfaces these days before Guillermo Del Toro's camera, we take a look back at the first sequel to the founding episode of a myth and an aesthetic, Frankenstein in 1931, also directed by James Whale. The flavor here lies as much in the reappearance of a character thought to have perished in a mill fire as in the narrative's mise en abyme through the presence of Mary Shelley as narrator. While The Bride of Frankenstein replays the score of the original opus almost identically, it nevertheless deepens the questions about the humanity of its unloved hero and explores the possibilities of fantastic cinema with greater visual inventiveness.
Session followed by an analysis of the film by Nicolas Thévenin, publication director of the magazine Répliques and teacher at l'école de design Nantes Atlantique.
Enseignant / Permanents