The Wars

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Drama

Overview

In The Wars photographer Oscar van Alphen combines an adapted version of Georges Bataille's text 'Madame Edwarda' with images drawn from his archive. 'Madame Edwarda' is a story with no beginning nor an end. A male first-person narrator and a prostitute encounter in Paris by night. It's a story about lust, power, anxiety, desire, and humiliation. Van Alphen uses Bataille's text as a metaphor for the perversity of social structures, for the uncontrollability of political and economic power, and the effects of these on human dignity. He juxtaposes pictures from the decaying and almost deserted industrial regions in Northern France and of the 1968 student rebellion in Paris, with the pornographic text from the first years of World War II.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: September 27, 2006
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: Netherlands
Production: Paradox
Director: Oscar van Alphen
Writer: Georges Bataille
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt5983514