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Festival Films A-Z
Even If She Had Been a Criminal...
Envie de Tempête Production
Frédéric Dubreil, Ives Le Yaouanq, Guillaume Desmartin
57, rue de Tocqueville
75017 Paris
Frankreich
Tel.: +33 1 49 98 39 94
E-Mail: enviedetempete@wanadoo.fr
Internet: www.enviedetempete.com
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Heure Exquise!
Le Fort, Avenue de Normandie, B.P. 113
59370 Mons-en-Baroeul
Frankreich
Tel.: +33 3 20 43 24 32
Fax: +33 3 20 43 24 33
E-Mail: contact@exquise.org
Internet: www.exquise.org
F 2006, Regie: Jean-Gabriel Périot, OmU, 10 min.
Synopsis
This stunning and masterful film covers a lot of ground for its short running time. Initially we're exposed to a blur of archival footage rushing by at an accelerated speed, which despite its pace, captures the insanity and devastation of France during World War II. The dizzying images start to slow as filmmaker Jean Gabriel Periot focuses on the triumphant celebration of a liberated country. Then abruptly the celebration turns to a cruel spectacle as we witness the public humiliation and punishment of women accused of having affairs with German soldiers during the war. Their heads are shaved, they are beaten and forced to paint swastikas on their faces. Again, the pace of the film changes: in cruelling slow motion the camera pans through the crowd and through the frames of the material themselves to show the shocking breadth of emotion present: from the shame of the victims to the hatred and joy in the eyes of the perpetrators. (Chicago International Documentary Film Festival)
What at first appears to be straightforward celebratory footage of the liberation of France in 1944 turns into another, darker picture through superb image and sound editing -- to astonishing effect.
Biography
Gay? (2000), Intimated Diary-Journal Intime (2001), Before I Was Sad - Avant j'étais triste (2002), 21.04.02 (2002), We Are Winning Don't Forget (2003), Devil Inside (2004), Dies Irae (2005), Undo (2005), Under Twilight (2006), Anijuman No Borei (200000 Phantôms) (2007)
Filmography
Gay? (2000), Intimated Diary-Journal Intime (2001), Before I Was Sad - Avant j'étais triste (2002), 21.04.02 (2002), We Are Winning Don't Forget (2003), Devil Inside (2004), Dies Irae (2005), Undo (2005), Under Twilight (2006), Anijuman No Borei (200000 Phantôms) (2007)
Dates
| 14 | 02.10.2007 | 22:30 | Filmhaus |
| 94 | 09.10.2007 | 21:15 | Filmhaus |