The bride and the refrain: an analysis of preexisting music in a film by Truffaut

Authors

  • Luíza Beatriz Alvim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.1205

Keywords:

Cinema, música no cinema, François Truffaut

Abstract

In The bride wore black (François Truffaut, 1968), the main character Julie revenges herself on the five men responsible for the death of her groom. Two preexisting pieces, the Mandolin concert by Vivaldi and Mendelssohn´s Wedding March, accompany her like refrains. The first one is related to the enumeration mode of the narrative, like in fairy tales and characterized by repetition, which is also present in the music structure. As for the Wedding March, it is heard as the original scene, the couple´s exit from the church, is repeated with differences. We consider the concepts of refrain, repetition (Deleuze) and origin (Benjamim) and we proceed to a film analysis of the sequences with the two preexisting pieces.

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Published

22-12-2015

How to Cite

Alvim, L. B. (2015). The bride and the refrain: an analysis of preexisting music in a film by Truffaut. E-Compós, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.1205

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Cinema