LA SYMBOLISATION DES COULEURS DANS LE FILM FRANÇAIS ET ROUMAIN, FIN DU XXEME SIECLE - DEBUT DU XXIEME SIECLE, MARQUES D'IDENTITE DANS LE MULTICULTURALISME EUROPEEN
LA SYMBOLISATION DES COULEURS DANS LE FILM FRANÇAIS ET ROUMAIN, FIN DU XXEME SIECLE - DEBUT DU XXIEME SIECLE, MARQUES D'IDENTITE DANS LE MULTICULTURALISME EUROPEEN

Summary/Abstract: Literary history, which sometimes inspires and doubles the history of cinema, pays greatattention to the symbolism of colors in the unfolding of narrative action. A famous example is thefamous novel The Red and the Black (1830), which is an in-depth chronicle of French society duringthe revolution. In this novel, the two colors are emblematic for the characters’ destinies, redsymbolizing the military career for which Julien Sorel develops a real passion, while black is theecclesiastical career. Regarding the female characters Madame de Renal and Mathilde de Mole, theauthor also resorts to this chromatic symbolism, in this case red representing love, excitement,passion and black representing misery, sickness, penance and, ultimately, death. Starting from thisnovel which was screened in countless versions, we intend to analyze the chromaticity of the Frenchand Romanian films of the 1990s to 2000s, the shades ranging from white to black, with alternationsof blue and gray, the color of ash, suggesting the atmosphere of the 1980s to 1999, respectively theCommunist era, the fall of Communism and the transition period in films such as “4 Months, 3 Weeksand 2 Days”, “Asphalt Tango”, “Italiencele”, “The Snails’ Senator”, “Occident”, “12:08 East ofBucharest”, “The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu”, “Child's Pose”, etc.

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