La cravate (1957)

User Rating:

6.5/10   

Director:

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Writers:

Alejandro Jodorowsky (writer)
Thomas Mann (novel)

Release Date:

1 May 1957 (France)

Genre:

Fantasy | Short

Plot:

A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads. |

Plot Keywords:

Mime | Cult | Identity | Actor Director Writer | Recapitation

Cast

Denise Brossot
Rolande Polya
Alejandro Jodorowsky		(as Alexandre Jodorowsky)
Saul Gilbert
Raymond Devos
Jean-Marie Proslier		(as Jean Marie Proslier)
Margot Loyola
Michel Orphelin
Jean Claude Sergent
François Perrot		(as François Parrot)
Theo Lesoualch
Harriet Sohmers
Marcel Dortort
Marthe Mercure
D.R. Balmaceda
Pierre Tassier
Solange Morlaive
Maria Irene Fornes
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Micheline Beauchemin	...	(uncredited)
Ruth Michelly	...	(uncredited)

Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky		(as Alexandre Jodorowsky)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Alejandro Jodorowsky		writer (as Alexandre Jodorowsky)
Thomas Mann		novel "The Transposed Heads"

Produced by
Saul Gilbert	....	producer

Original Music by
Edgar Bischoff

Film Editing by
Saul Gilbert

Costume Design by
Ruth Michelly

Other crew
Jean Cocteau	....	writer: introduction

Distributors

• Allen & Betty Klein and Company (ABKCO) (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Anchor Bay Entertainment (2007) (USA) (DVD)
• Raro Video (2007) (Italy) (DVD) (boxed set)
• Tartan Video (2007) (UK) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Les têtes interverties (France) (informal title)
The Severed Heads (International: English title) (informal title)

Runtime:

20 min

Country:

France

Language:

None

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Trivia:

Released as 'La Cravate' with 'The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky' box-set from Anchor Bay in 2007. Digitally remastered to HD from a print found in a German attic in 2006.

Movie Connections:

Version of Org (1978)

Strange and interesting little film

La Cravate is an interesting tale of a lady who sells/exchanges human heads for a living and a man who exchanges his head for the sake of a woman and finds that he likes his original head best. More or less.

This is the first of Alejandro Jodorowsky's films that I have seen, though I have heard of many of them. In fact, I just bought a boxed set of his films, so I'll be watching more soon. So I had few preconceptions of what his films would be like when watching this one.

I thought it was an interesting short, and the idea of using mime to tell the story really seemed to work for this one. It had a surreal feel to it and some interesting camera work. Its short length was appropriate for the film.

Quite interesting, I quite enjoyed this one.