Regarde Jonathan Jean Louvet, son oeuvre ( Jean Pierre Luc Dardenne, 1983) EN

Look at Jonathan (1983) highlights the work of dissident playwright Jean Louvet through highly impressionist montages (a lone boxer, moving trains, dancing feet) and Brechtian restagings of his work (dramatic readings, minimalist sets, and snippets of text). The Dardennes interview Louvet, who cofounded the Proletarian Theatre of La LouviËre after the Belgian worker demonstrations of 1960, and the playwrights streamofconscious reflections on his craft combined with the Dardennes visual experimentation make for a very dense and heady experience. (One of their sets of a workers camp, in fact, anticipates Von Triers visual aesthetic in Dogville, the Dardennes abandoned train tracks and sporadic fire pits within a dark, theatrical arena evokes the same merging of exterior and interior space. )