I recently had the honor of being interviewed by editor, film historian and writer Marcelline Block about the career and films of Jean Rollin and that chat can now be read over at Electric Sheep.
Thank you very much to Marcelline for the questions and I hope our talk proves enjoyable.
1 comment:
Amazing interview. "La rose de fer" is also my favorite Jean Rollin film, together with "Les Deux Orphelines Vampires". I agree with everything which has been said. Jean Rollin wasn't a filmmaker. He was a poet. I think it's difficult to trace an influence of Rollin on cinema also because he's simply unique. I'll compare him to Italian novelist and comic book author Tiziano Sclavi (who penned the story Michele Soavi's "Dellamorte Dellamore" was based on, which is my favorite film, out the year before I was born: I first discovered Rollin in a review mentioning "La rose de fer" as a prototype of that film). They both have unique styles. Speaking about Sclavi, he is very popular in Italy but no one has ever been able to copy him, because he's unique: he managed to blend surreal horror, humor, eroticism, poetry, melancholy, nonsense, paradox often all these elements are shown simultaneosly. I think the same goes for Jean Rollin. Also, both reprise some of the same characters and mythical places (for instance, the beach of Dieppe...) in many of their works. I know I focus too much on Sclavi, but what I mean is: no matter how popular you are, if you're too unique there will be no actual artistic heir of yours. Or at least, it'd be very rare.
Post a Comment