
The Painter
1975-01-01 · 8 min · Not rated
short from of Series “The Art of silence: pantomimes with Marcel Marceau and his partner Pierre Verry”. Mime makes the invisible visible and the visible invisible. Marceau’s sometimes comical - but always graceful - interpretation of The Painter in Central Park allows the viewer to “see” objects which are not there.
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- John W. Barnes
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- Encyclopædia Britannica Films
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- United Kingdom
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