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Bakhtin's reticence on the subject of cinema may have been because films were so much controlled and discussed by the Communist Party, of which he did not approve. 4 He had a profound mistrust of loud intonation which monologises discourse and does not give enough space to the other voice within this discourse. One might argue, however, that because of the recorded nature of film, cinema is far more a form of writing than a performance. Although Bakhtin has not actually written on film, the concepts identified by him have been applied to cinema by Gérard Genette and Julia Kristeva, then by Robert Stam, who have concentrated mainly on dialogism and carnival.
With regard to this topic, two films immediately spring to mind Malle's Zazie dans le Métro (1960) and Truffaut's Le Dernier Métro (1980). The eponymous references would seem to promise a good source of material but we would be disappointed. In Zazie dans le Métro the allusion is ironic: the young heroine's ambition, at the beginning of the film, to ride in the métro is thwarted; there is a strike, the métro is closed,3 and, peering through the shuttered gates, she is forced to remain not in it but frustratingly out of it, almost to the very end, when we have a brief glimpse of her on an overground section as she returns to the railway station.
Within the framework of what Guy Austin describes generously as the successful coexistence of neo-realism and fantasy,20 and what Jacques Siclier dismisses as a spineless, artificial scenario, full of hallucinatory vision,21 the métro provides several nightmare images. Early on in the film, Alex follows Michèle along the moving pavement, before continuing to chase her through the corridors; she in her turn is searching for a busking cellist whose music is heard on the sound-track. The cellist has been threatened by Alex and has run away; thus adding to the heroine's confusion when she fails to discover the source of the music which she has been moving towards.