Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

La Donna è Mobile

Monique Renault 1993 France Animation color 3min No Dialogue N/A
A journey into male fantasies seen through the eyes of a woman, based on the famous aria from Verdi's Rigoletto. The duke of Mantua dreams of nudes, languishing beauties. The women depicted recall famous paintings:Matisse, Ingres, Botticelli, Degas;revealing the beauty of a pose or the sensuallity of a gesture.

Director

Monique Renault

Monique Renault is an independent maker of animation films. Her technique is most notably coloured pencil applied directly to paper. She started out making films with social themes (feminism, anti-religion and anti-militarist) mixed with humour. In later work she focussed on cultural themes like dance and quotations of celebrities, cultural periods and genres. The humour remained. Her films are shown on screens all over the world.

Monique Renault
  • PSYCHODERCHE (1972)
  • A LA VOTRE (1973)
  • SWISS GRAFFITTI (1975)
  • BORDERLINE 1 & 2 (1981)
  • WEG ERMEE! (1982)
  • LONG LIVE THE S. REVOLUTION (1983)
  • HANDS OFF (BLIJF VAN MIJN LIJF) (1985)
  • ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL (1987)
  • PAS A DEUX (1988)
  • LA DONNA E MOBILE (1993)
  • L'ALLIANCE (1995)
  • HOLY SMOKE (2000)

 

Director & Animation: Monique Renault
Music: G. Verdi

Monique Renault
mmarenault@gmail.com