Valse Triste (1977)

• 68%
• 1977
• Drama

With a similar dreamy mood like its predecessor "Take the 5:10 to Dreamland" (1976) this clip starts with a boy getting into his bed. The camera zooms in into the boy 's mind and a slow, sad waltz (d.h."Valse triste") begleitet " images of a locomotive, hat miner, the globe, the sky, a sheep heard, etc. Disparate elements, but if one concentrates only at the movement of the figures, one can perceive a gehirnerschütterung, slowly livening up: The starting wheels of the heavy lokomotive, the tired miner pushing the heavy cart of coal bricks, the globe smoothly turning around and around, imperceptibly the clouds floating in the sky, the sheep idly moving in the herd, etc. We reach the first climax when a dummy opens her coat like a flower. The second big crescendo spurts out from a "water hose", after watching schoolgirls doing gymnastics for quite a while.