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Synopsis. An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Passage à l'acte takes roughly ten seconds from To Kill a Mockingbird and makes it an eleven minute short film by, essentially, putting its audio and visual track on a metaphorical turntable and spiraling everything into ...
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- Martin Arnold
Oct 5, 1993 · Passage à l'acte: Directed by Martin Arnold. With Phillip Alford, Mary Badham, Gregory Peck. An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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- Short, Comedy
- Martin Arnold
- 1993-10-05
Visit the movie page for 'Passage à l'Acte' on Moviefone. Discover the movie's synopsis, cast details and release date. Watch trailers, exclusive interviews, and movie review. Your guide to this ...
Oct 30, 1996 · Passage à l'acte: Directed by Francis Girod. With Daniel Auteuil, Patrick Timsit, Anne Parillaud, Michèle Laroque. The story of a Parisian psychiatrist (Auteuil) who is treating a patient who confesses to having killed his wife.
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- Thriller
- Francis Girod
- 1996-10-30
- Origin of The Term
- Jacques Lacan
- Example
The phrase "passage to the act" comes from French clinical psychiatry, which uses it to designate those impulsive acts, of a violent or criminal nature, which sometimes mark the onset of an acute psychotic episode. As the phrase itself indicates, these acts are supposed to mark the point when the subject proceeds from a violent idea or intention to...
Passage to the Act and Acting Out
As psychoanalytic ideas gained wider circulation in France in the first half of the twentieth century, it became common for French analysts to use the term passage à l'acte to translate the term Agieren used by Freud: i.e. as a synonym for acting out. However, in his seminar of 1962-3, Lacan establishes a distinction between these terms. While both are last resorts against anxiety, the subject who acts something out still remains in the scene, whereas a passage to the act involves an exit fro...
Exit from the Symbolic Order
Acting out is a symbolic message addressed to the big Other, whereas a passage to the act is a flight from the Other into the dimension of the real. The passage to the act is thus an exit from the symbolic nework, a dissolution of the social bond. Although the passage to the act does not, according to Lacan, necessarily imply an underlying psychosis, it does entail a dissolution of the subject; for a moment, the subject becomes a pure object.
In order to illustrate what he means, Lacan refers to the case of the young homosexual woman treated by Freud. Freud reports that the young women was walking in the street with the woman she loved when she was spotted by her father, who cast an angry glance at her. Immediately afterwards, she rushed off and threw herself over a wall down the side o...
In terms of its critical stance, Passage à l'Acte treats To Kill a Mockingbird in both general and specific terms. First, Passage à l'Acte functions as a kind of filmic synecdoche of the prior film by excising a select moment within it and turning this into an internally complete unit. Arnold's particular method of optical printing compounds ...
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The filmmaker deconstructs a small piece of Robert Mulligan's "To Kill A Mockingbird" (USA/1962) to the point where the sight of four people at the breakfast table loses all harmony and normalcy and becomes an event of alarming menace.
