A critical trend: Politique des acteurs

Abstract

This paper reviews a trend that has gained presence in contemporary criticism: Politique des acteurs. The very concept to which we allude borrows the most famous moment of film criticism,`le politique des auteurs´, to exchange the last concept, but announcing the type of criticism it practices: the analysis, both formal and narrative, of a work as a whole, but from the actor’s point of view. How an actor conditions the staging with his gestures, his way of acting, his own physicality, how they impose the rhythm or tone. But also their evolution, their refutations, their place as narrators of themselves -in a story sustained over time-, and as filmmakers -as they decide to participate in a certain mise-en-scène or help to write cinematographically in the shot. In short, `le politique des acteurs´ understands the corpus of an actor as it has historically been done with the auteur.