Aug 8, 2008 Art of the Title Comments (7)
Le Souffleur
Textual fluidity frozen repeatedly.
Art of the Title spoke with Julien Widmer, the designer of the opening titles for "Le Souffleur" a film about an imaginative but shy theater prompter who falls in love with an unwitting actress.
"'Souffleur' means 'the prompter' and 'the blower.' It's the same word in French because a prompter 'blows' the words to the actors when they are in need. This particular theater prompter happens to live in his prompter box. So for this title I chose to blow letters and words like a prompter would do. In this 3D graphic space, we are like the actor who forgot his lines, searching for the words between the letters."
