Simple Production

The film-maker and ethnologist Luc de Heusch met James Ensor, the famous painter from Ostend, shortly after the war in his house in Ostend, currently called the “Ensor Museum”. James Ensor was 80 years old and was sitting under an enormous painting with bright barbaric colours he had made more than half a century before : “L’Entrée du Christ à Bruxelles” (Christ’s Entry into Brussels).

This movie about James Ensor is not a documentary but a kind of novel movie transported by the intensity of the painter’s works and his passion for language.

Credits

• Duration: 55’
• 35 mm – color – format 1,66 – stereo/mono
• Director : Luc de Heusch (with the help of Henri Storck)
• Texts : James Ensor
• First director assistant : Pierrot de Heusch
• Image : Jean-Claude Neckelbrouck (Cameraman) – Michel baudour (Photography)
• Sound : Jean-Claude Boulanger
• Editor: Suzanne Baron
• Stage assistant: Marianne Nihon
• Music : Denis Pousseur
• Sound mixing : Gérard Rousseau
• Voice-over: Paul Andrieu (French), Bob de Moor (Dutch) et Richard Wells (English)

Production and Partners

• Production: Simple Production
• Coproduction: RTBF, VRT, Arte Belgique and Films Messages
• Partners: Nos (Holland), SSR (Switzerland), the French and Dutch Communities of Belgium, La Loterie Nationale and the "Amis d’Ensor"

TV Broadcasters

• RTBF, VRT, Arte, Nos, Yle, RTP (Portugal), BBC2and ABS (Australia)

Dvd

• Original version - French subtitles
• Original version - Dutch subtitles
• Original version - English subtitles