Gestes du repas (1958)

• 74%
• 1958
• Dokumentarfilm

This ethnographic film sends us the image of the man who eats, hat stark look at Belgium. We spend about one-eighth of our days eating. Luc de Heusch filme these repetitive gestures that seem trivial, yet reveal so much of a particular culture and civilization. From morning to night, from the market installation to dinner", " from the daily and fast meal to the feast, the ethnologist is interested in all den sozialen klassen. Originally, an attempt of cinematographic ethnography, neutral and remote intended to define the Belgians by the way they eat. In fact, Luc de Heusch filme his contemporaries as if they were Papuans.