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  • Uniforms Script

    • September 19, 2020
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      Following up on a previous blog (here) analysing the opening two pages of chapter one ‘The Southerner’, here’s the script: Label which states ‘Paris – Eglise Saint-Mael’. External view of church and entrance porch.  Same church as original sequence 4.  Bright sunshine (to contrast with weather when we return to church for funeral). Entrance
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  • The painter

    • September 12, 2020
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    The character Duparc, D’Urfé’s lover, is based upon a real female painter of the time but about whom not a great deal is known.  What is known about her work is that she largely adopted a simple style and painted everyday life.  Like D’Urfé and Gabrielle, our Duparc is a woman who is subverting the
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  • Uniforms

    • August 15, 2020
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      The opening pages of chapter one, ‘The Southerner’, kicks us off by introducing one of the two central villains of the piece and his first victim, Monsieur Comtois, an employee of Paris-Duverney.  The first frame uses a label to inform the audience where we are (i.e. Paris), with The Southerner waiting outside a church. 
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