RHAPSODY IN WHITE
РАПСОДИЯ В БЯЛО



Bulgaria, 2002, 90 minutes, colour

This is a story about a woman, but not entirely a woman. Not entirely because she is hilariously fat. Because she is a clown and being a female clown in very difficult work. During the whole time, the clown gets in the way of the woman and the woman in the way of the clown. How and when will these two sides come to some agreement, unite, and do something together? This is one of the questions which we will find an answer to. In fact, nothing in the life of this woman in "entirely". She is an actress, but not entirely. She is playing the role of her life, but not entirely. In the end she dies, but not entirely. (I deliberately use riddles - so that you'll watch the film)

I will try to rehabilitate the genre of comedy, to be able to laugh at things which make us sad, and prove that humour and intelligence are one and the same thing. I want comedy and tragedy to go hand in hand. This will be a film about the fight against a terrible, invincible enemy - the triviality of life. There will be elements of the provincial hopelessness of Chekhov, refracted through the sudden twists of fate of Chaplin's humour. A bow to silent cinema and to Chekhov