The words drop in the flow of a larger sentence, a larger point. They occur between parentheses. Is this why – to my knowledge – no one has ever cited them? They are devoted to Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie (1964) by Raymond Bellour in his major 1977 text “Énoncer”, later included in his collection L’Analyse du film. I first read them ... when I was 18 years old. And then I went around quoting these words – in classrooms, in articles, in conferences – for two decades or more: … that unreal film we call film …
