Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal (1967)
December 6, 1967Release Date
Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal (1967)
December 6, 1967Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Louisette Rousseau
Mme Kabal
Pierre Collet
M. Kabal
Louis Jojot
Actor
Renata Astruc
Actress
Walerian Borowczyk
Director
Jacques Forgeot
Producer
Avenir de Monfred
Composer
Guy Durban
Cinematographer
Francis Pronier
Cinematographer
Claude Blondel
Editor
André G. Brunelin
Executive Producer
Daniel Pauquet
Production Manager
Claude Copin
Assistant Director
Gérard Cox
Camera Operator
Louis Perrin
Sound
Philippe Malémont
Camera Operator
Claudette Coulant
Makeup Artist
Serge Groffe
Makeup Artist
Mohamed Boughaba
Still Photographer
Daniel Mamet
Electrician
Brigitte Duvergé
Assistant Director
Madeleine Quiquandon
Unit Production Manager
Jean Guerbette
Unit Manager
Marcellin Lerouge
Key Grip
Umbert Pieri
Assistant Camera
Mei Chen
Maîthé Mansoura
Kathy Luc
Yvonne Landry
Edith Catry
Jacqueline Boivin
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 6, 1967
Original NameThéâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Genres
Wiki.
Mr. and Mrs. Kabal's Theatre (Théâtre de Monsieur & Madame Kabal) is a 1967 French animated film directed by Walerian Borowczyk. It is Borowczyk's first feature-length film and his last animated film. It consists of a sequence of loosely connected scenes, much like a vaudeville program, in which Mr. and Mrs. Kabal perform absurd, surreal, and sometimes cruel acts. Borowczyk introduced the personnel in his short film Le Concert de Monsieur et Madame Kabal in 1962.
A mixture of cut-out and drawn animation is used, but also clippings of old illustrations and photographs and even a processed live-action appearance by the director himself. Most images are black-and-white, with only the occasional coloured element. The sound design adds a lot to the surreal atmosphere. Mrs. Kabal speaks in an illegible collage of cut-up human sounds, sometimes translated into subtitles. The film won the Interfilm Award at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival in 1967.
"The dark and grotesque story of a married couple: the wife - a mechanical monster made up of iron parts, and her henpecked husband. When Mrs. Kabal eats a butterfly, she gets indigestion and her husband has to travel to his wife's insides to search for the cause of her illness. The film includes colour photographic inserts - Mrs. Kabal's dreams."