tableau vivant

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tableau vivant

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Borrowed from French tableau vivant (literally “living picture”).

noun tableaux vivants

A tableau (group scene resembling a painting). Indeed, there is something uncanny about the careful re-enactment of the scene in the manner of a tableau vivant, something that Jean-Luc Godard would also experiment with and try to push to its limits in Passion (1982).

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@misc{tableau_vivant_2026,
  title = {tableau vivant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tableau%20vivant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}