Documentary about Suzanne Lilar, pt. 3

http://www.lamediatheque.be/the/auteurs_belges/auteurs/lilar_suzanne_.html .
This video clip shows a segment of the 1979 documentary film about the Belgian writer Suzanne Lilar (1901-1992) entitled "Suzanne Lilar - Au-delà de l'apparence".

(Sorry for the bad image quality of some passages)

This segment is entitled "L'éblouissement" or "Dazzlement"

Lilar's first play, "Le Burlador" (1945) or " The Burlador" is at first an exercise of style on the theme of Don Juan. The first scene is a transfer of the first scene of Sevilla de Tirso de Molina's "El Burlador". But then the characters escape her, get a life on their own, and the magic spell of the theatre takes over.

In this play she approaches a topic that is dear to her: the difference between masculine love - rebellious to lingering - and feminine love - enamored at the same time with passion and duration. Men do not believe, in general, that it is possible to connect in a same love both passion and duration.

The success of "Le Burlador" frees Lilar from her confining role of spouse and middle-class woman. She now abruptly has a vocation and a career. The masculine aspect of her personality takes over.

Lilar's second play, "Tous les chemins mènent au ciel" (1947) is a reaction against ectasy - the slope towards dissolution in love, a reaction against this very tendency of her own nature. In this play she wants to give a renewed status and dignity to ectasy by demanding it be experienced with lucidity and consciousness. She does not make a difference beween such amorous ectasy and religious ectasy (see also Parts 7 and 9).

The film by Jean-Marie Mersch & Joseph Benedek was produced for the Belgian TV station, R.T.B.F.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Lilar

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