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The Documentary Film Month at the Institut français
Once again this year, the Médiathèque celebrates the Documentary Film Month. Notable documentaries by French documentarists who have explored this theme will be available in the Médiathèque.
In particular the Profils paysans trilogy (2007) by Raymond Depardon investigates the solitude and suffering of a world soon to disappear. In Chronique d'un été (1960) by Jean Rouch, the author and sociologue Edgar Morin asks young Parisians about the summer whilst Les Images oubliées de Germaine Tillion (2006) retraces the life of the ethnologist in Algeria and France.
Memory and Cinema
Lebel Jean-Patrick, Notes pour Debussy : Lettre ouvete à Jean-Luc Godard, Centre national de la cinématographie - Cinécim, 1987.-/DV/307.74 LEB
The social housing of the “Cité des 4000” at the Courneuve was built in the early sixties to rehouse the persons in need in Paris. This period is evoked through the images of Godard's film : "Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle", filmed in the Courneuve in 1967.Memories and Society
Memory and Women
Memory and History
France | Italy | Spain | Russia | Ex Yougoslavia | Algeria
Jean Rouch: Chronique d'un été (France, 1960)
Jean Rouch, Chronique d'un été, ARTE, 2003 - dir. in 1960
Find it at la médiathèque: .-/DV/301 ROU
In the summer of 1960, Edgar Morin, a sociologist, and Jean Rouch conducted an inquiry into the daily lives of young Parisians in an attempt to understand their concept of happiness. This experimental film follows, over a period of several months, both the investigation itself and the development of its main characters. The initial question “How do you live ? Are you happy ?” Read more & Watch the trailerRaymond Depardon: Profils paysans
Raymond Depardon, Profils paysans, ARTE, 2007.
Find it at la mediathèque -/DV/307.72 DEP
It is almost the end of the world. At the very depth of Lozere by the Haute-Loire or Ardèche, a generation of old forgotten peasants keep watch over the last days of a rural France of another time. Raymond Depardon with discretion and reserve explains the sufferings and the solitude of this agricultural world doomed to extinction. Once more time Raymond Depardon appears to be a very talented film maker. Watch the TrailerLes images oubliées de Germaine Tillion
Les images oubliées de Germaine Tillion, Pois chiches Films, 2006.
Find it at la médiathèque: -/DV/300.92 TIL
The ethnologist and war resistant, Germaine Tillion, 92 years old, finds in her archives, snapshots taken in the Aures, in Algeria, where she was carrying out her first missions in the 30's. These photos witness the end of a world, but and above all, they put a light on the life and the thought as well as the personality of this woman who was one of the most famous witness of the 20th century.
