Packet 5: Tossup 11

In a film by a writer-director with this first name, an actor known by the mononym Raimu plays a baker who is disillusioned when his wife abandons him for a young lover. A string (-5[1])seems to tie itself around an artist with this first name in Maya Deren’s abandoned (15[1])short film Witch’s Cradle. An author with this first name adapted a 1930s trilogy of plays consisting of Marius, Fanny, and (15[1])César (15[1])into screenplays, and immortalized his home region of Provence in the novels-turned-films My Father’s Glory, Manon (15[1])des Sources (“day soorss”), and Jean de Florette. An artist with this first (-5[1])name glued seven obscene puns in white text onto cardboard phonograph disks called (*) “rotoreliefs” to create (10[1])the short film Anemic Cinema. (10[1])It’s not Emmanuel, but among the cameos (10[1])in René Clair’s Entr’acte (“on-TRACT”) is an artist with this first name (-5[1])who is blasted with water while playing chess. (10[2])For 10 points, give this first name of an artist who credited his first film to his female alter ego (10[2])Rrose (10[1])Sélavy ■END■ (10[3])

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