La peinture cubiste (1981): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1981, La peinture cubiste is a notable film directed by Philippe Grandrieux.

What it’s about. Commissioned for the French television series Regards Entendus, La peinture cubiste is a multilayered, elusive investigation of the perception of reality and representation through cinema, painting and video. Unfolding as an evocative, implied fictional narrative, this work was suggested by a Jean Paulhan text in which a man experiences and perceives everyday life as though in the multifaceted space of a Cubist painting. Alternating between film and video, Kuntzel and Grandrieux explore physical and psychical perception, constructing an analogy between the way video transforms conventional filmic representation and the way Cubism fractured the perspectival codes of classical pictorial space. Shifting between abstraction and materiality, the real and the imaginary, this work suggests passages between painting, cinema and video.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch La peinture cubiste page.