{"id":19468,"date":"2020-01-24T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19468"},"modified":"2020-01-24T01:07:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:07:26","slug":"lautoportrait-dun-pornographe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/01\/24\/lautoportrait-dun-pornographe\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Autoportrait d&#8217;un Pornographe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E3Us-C6enA4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pornographe1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pornographe1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E3Us-C6enA4\" target=\"_blank\"><em>L&#8217;Autoportrait d&#8217;un Pornographe<\/em><\/a> (1972) is a short film co-written by director Robert Swaim and Roland Topor in which Topor&#8217;s Surrealist cruelties and black humour are tempered to present a sardonic and sentimental tribute to a dying breed, the small-time Parisian pornographer. Daniel Langlet is the photographer who also sells his views of unclothed women from a coat whose lining is pocketed with prints.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E3Us-C6enA4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pornographe2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/pornographe2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swaim and Topor compare this declining trade to the vanished street merchants of the city; the film dates from a time when &#8220;le sex shop&#8221; was a new arrival on the streets of Paris, and a competitor with which a purveyor of black-and-white soft porn could never hope to compete. Topor himself makes a cameo appearance, and there&#8217;s a possible reference to Cocteau&#8217;s <em>Orph\u00e9e<\/em> (and another vanishing trade) in the glass cutter we see in the street.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/08\/02\/les-temps-morts-by-rene-laloux\/\">Les Temps Morts by Ren\u00e9 Laloux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L&#8217;Autoportrait d&#8217;un Pornographe (1972) is a short film co-written by director Robert Swaim and Roland Topor in which Topor&#8217;s Surrealist cruelties and black humour are tempered to present a sardonic and sentimental tribute to a dying breed, the small-time Parisian pornographer. Daniel Langlet is the photographer who also sells his views of unclothed women from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/01\/24\/lautoportrait-dun-pornographe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;L&#8217;Autoportrait d&#8217;un Pornographe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[10443,132,895,10442,896],"class_list":["post-19468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-daniel-langlet","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-rene-laloux","tag-robert-swaim","tag-roland-topor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-540","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}