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Rococoeur is a Montreal based film production company founded by Ariane F. St-Amour, Fanny Forest, Jonathan Beaulieu-Cyr and Renaud Lessard. MAD DOG LABINE (2019) - winner of the National Competition at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma and the Gilles Carle award at the RVQC - is their first feature film.
The Rococo style began in France in the 1730s as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Louis XIV style. It was known as the "style Rocaille ", or "Rocaille style". [2] It soon spread to other parts of Europe, particularly northern Italy, Austria, southern Germany, Central Europe and Russia. [3]
Rococo, style in interior design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century. It is characterized by lightness, elegance, and an exuberant use of curving natural forms in ornamentation.
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Production: ROCOCOEUR. “ The Ballad of Daddy & Johnny”, co-written with D.Vanchesteing, is an obvious testimony: the melancholy pop lullaby. It's "La ballade de Johnny Jane" (Gainsbourg) but less cheesy and more morbid. Metaphorically, it’s a doll from the 19th century, giggling and looking you straight in the eyes.
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- The Embarkation for Cythera. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau. This painting depicts a number of amorous couples in elegant aristocratic dress within an idealized pastoral setting on Cythera, the mythical island where Venus, the goddess of love, birthed forth from the sea.
- Pierrot. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau. This painting (formerly known as Gilles) depicts Pierrot, a traditional character in Italian commedia dell'arte. He is elevated on center stage in what appears to be a garden and he faces the viewer with a downcast expression as his white satin costume dominates, its ballooning midsection lit up.
- The Entrance to the Grand Canal. Artist: Canaletto. This noted landscape depicts the entrance to the Grand Canal in Venice, with a number of gondoliers and their passengers maneuvering horizontally across the canvas.
- Soap Bubbles. Artist: Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin. This painting depicts two children at play. An older boy, leaning forward, blows through a reed, expanding a luminous soap bubble.
Jan 9, 2019 · Highly decorative walls and ceiling in an oval chamber, looking up toward an ornate chandelier. Parsifall / Wikimedia Commons. Rococo describes a type of art and architecture that began in France in the mid-1700s. It is characterized by delicate but substantial ornamentation.
Often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement, it was exceptionally ornamental and theatrical – a style without rules. Compared to the order, refinement and seriousness of the Classical style, Rococo was seen as superficial, degenerate and illogical.
