But, unlike the soundtrack of "Breathless" — for which Godard collected a vast number of location sounds and put them together in an elaborate sound edit, resulting in a mix so dense and so precisely matched to the image that many critics mistook it for sync sound — that of "Le Petit Soldat" is obviously dubbed.
But, unlike the soundtrack of "Breathless"—for which Godard collected a vast number of location sounds and put them together in an elaborate sound edit, resulting in a mix so dense and so precisely matched to the image that many critics mistook it for sync sound that of "Le Petit Soldat" is obviously dubbed.
It's an extraordinary work a psychological portrait of the musician by means of dramatizations of his childhood, discussions with contemporaries, musical performances, elaborate video and editing effects, and interviews with Coleman.
If Twyla Tharp dances make us feel we're up on the stage dancing, Pina Bausch dances make us feel we're editing an elaborate dance film all made up of abrupt cuts and disconnected splices.
Elaborate car chases are edited to emphasize jolts and skids and crashes while almost never yielding a distinctive angle or provocative perspective.
The patient is encouraged to review, edit or elaborate the model at any time, and can print it out for future reference.
Massing on the other side of the chasm are filmmakers who do not hesitate to use every rhetorical device available to them -- voice-over narration, musical accompaniment, distorting lenses, the elaborate visual effects and complex editing patterns made possible by the new digital editing technology -- to shape their raw material into an argued, structured piece.
The film, made in Paris on a relatively modest budget, uses set design, camera movement and clever editing (rather than elaborate special effects) to create a world of sinister conspiracy and tantalizing sensual possibility.
You can edit out the elaborate group therapy session that would ensue after this if it were real, but at least show us that it happened.
SM and DR contributed to the conception of the idea, drafted the manuscript and critically reviewed the final manuscript; DR and SB elaborated the sections 3, 4, 7, the figure and the tables and editing the manuscript; CP, GD and MN elaborated the section 5; AT and GB elaborated the section 6; SF elaborated the sections 1 and 2 and conclusions.
