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FILM - C'est Moi Dans la Poubelle 30 May

30 May 2024
10 am

Location:VG&M Learning Suite

Film

C’est Moi Dans la Poubelle

When Ezra Pound was released, after twelve years, from the mental hospital he'd been committed to, he returned to Italy and lapsed into a long silence of deep regret and shame. This was not a vow of silence, just a depressed wordlessness - he felt he'd ruined everything, not least his own Cantos ('a botch - stupidity and ignorance all through'). He went to see Endgame in Paris, uttering only the title of the play. Beckett subsequently came to visit him in Venice, and C’est Moi Dans la Poubelle is our film rendition of this meeting, according to Beckett's account, with treatment by James Lever and directed by Michael O’Neill (Armchair & Rocket).

Director: Michael O’Neill
Written by: James Lever
Producers: Armchair & Rocket
Actors: Lalor Roddy and Vincent Higgins
Photo: Unreal Cities

This showing is part of Beckett: Unbound 2024. For more information and a full listing of events, please go to www.liverpool.ac.uk/beckett

This is a short film that will play on a loop continually throughout the day.