Dance of Dreams. Vincente Minnelli. American in Paris

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Dance of Dreams

Vincente Minnelli

American in Paris

Gilles Deleuze

Cinema 2: The Time Image

Cinéma 2: L'image-temps

Chapter III. From Recollection to Dreams: Third Commentary on Bergson

Chapitre III. Du souvenir aux rêves (troisième commentaire de Bergson)

3c: The Implied Dream': movements of world

3c: Le « rêve impliqué » : les mouvements de monde

If musical comedy gives us in an explicit way so many scenes which work like dreams or pseudo-dreams with metamorphoses (Singing in the Rain, Band Wagon, and especially Minnelli’s An American in Paris), it is because it is entirely a gigantic dream, but an implied dream, which in turn implies the passage of a presumed reality in the dream. [Deleuze Cinema 2, 1989:59bc]

Si la comédie musicale nous présente explicitement tant de scènes fonctionnant comme des rêves ou de pseudo-rêves à métamorphoses (« Chantons sous la pluie », « Bandwagon », et surtout « Un Américain à Paris » de Minnelli), c’est parce qu’elle est tout entière un gigantesque rêve, mais un rêve impliqué, et qui implique lui-même le passage d’une réalité supposée au rêve. [Deleuze Cinéma 2, 1985:84a]

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time Image. Transl. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. London & New York: 1989.

Deleuze, Gilles. Cinéma 2: L'image-temps. Paris: Les éditions de minuit, 1985.

The image is a painting by an artist named Dave. His main site is here. And his blog is here. The image is from:

http://davelandart.blogspot.com/2009/02/american-in-paris.html