Contemporary Literary Criticism | The Brothers Quay - Raymond Durgnat (review date June 1986)

Raymond Durgnat (review date June 1986)

SOURCE: A review of Igor—The Paris Years Chez Pleyel, in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 629, June, 1986, pp. 189-90.

[Durgnat is an English film professor and critic whose books on the cinema include Luis Buñuel (1968), The Strange Case of Alfred Hitchcock (1974), and King Vidor, American (1988). In the following positive review of Igor—The Paris Years Chez Pleyel, he summarizes the events depicted in the film and argues that puppet animation of this kind has "momentous" consequences for film theory.]

On his first visit to Paris, Mayakovsky (who always bellows through a megaphone) describes the rich diversity of artists overflowing its café terraces and spinning off into their own orbits. He visits Stravinsky in his apartment above a player-piano repair shop at 22 rue Rochechouart. Stravinsky has accepted a contract to transcribe his works on to piano...

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