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Roger Noake (review date July 1986)

SOURCE: A review of The Eternal Day of Michel De Ghelderode 1898–1962, in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 53, No. 630, July, 1986, p. 221.

[In the following review of The Eternal Day of Michel De Ghelderode 1898–1962, Noake examines the ways in which the Quays use "the framework of the bio-pic to explore and develop formal elements of mise-en-scène in live theatre and puppet productions."]

Maps of fifteenth-century Flanders and present-day Belgium are juxtaposed, while the voice of Michel De Ghelderode announces that he is not a Belgium writer but a man who writes in a room. An eye appears at a peep-hole, and the first of six extracts adapted from Ghelderode's work begins. The eccentric cavalier from the play Cavalier Bizarre rides through sinister scenery of windmills and gibbets; another figure in a cart or tumbril spins past, trembling in terror as it is transported into...

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1. Introduction
2. ∗Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Mark Le Fanu (essay date Spring 1984)
   2. Tony Rayns (review date June 1986)
   3. The Brothers Quay with Chris Petit (interview date June 1986)
   4. Julian Petley (review date June 1986)
   5. Raymond Durgnat (review date June 1986)
   6. Michael O'Pray (review date June 1986)
   7. Peter Greenaway (review date Summer 1986)
   8. Richard Combs (review date July 1986)
   9. Roger Noake (review date July 1986)
   10. Vincent Canby (review date 29 April 1987)
   11. David Edelstein (review date 5 May 1987)
   12. Amos Vogel (review date May-June 1987)
   13. Terrence Rafferty (essay date June 1987)
   14. Georgia Brown (review date 2 April 1991)
   15. Jonathan Romney (essay date March 1992)
   16. Jonathan Romney (review date May 1992)
   17. Denise Tilles (essay date January 1993)
   18. Michael Atkinson (essay date September-October 1994)
   19. The Brothers Quay with Ryan Deussing (interview date 9 February 1996)
   20. Stephen Holden (review date 13 March 1996)
   21. J. Hoberman (review date 19 March 1996)
4. Further Reading
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