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Jaures (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Jaurès
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
French ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
172 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Vincent Dieutre

Written By:
Vincent Dieutre

Actors:
Eva Truffaut
Vincent Dieutre

Synopsis:

Jaurès is a Paris métro station between the 10th and the 19th arrondissement, but this film turns it into an unreal space where the personal and the political merge. Through the film's fascinating conceit, the ghost story of Simon is mirrored by another ghost story playing out in the footage of the illegal immigrants hiding under the subway stop and suffering a very different kind of invisibility. Although they live and hide in the very centre of Paris, they remain nameless and placeless, unwanted and outside of society. Their visibility in the film holds the personal love story and the political drama together, and, even though connecting the two seems unlikely, Dieutre achieves an astonishing symbiosis.

A studio. A man and a woman. Moving images on the screen, which he comments on, spurred on by her questions. All the footage was shot from the window of a flat: views of the street, the metro line running above it, the canal, into the windows of the buildings opposite. The flat belongs to the man's lover, the man is a guest, spending his nights there but never his days. By the canal, young men from Afghanistan set up makeshift shelters as the man looks on, developing increasing sympathy for them. The seasons change, winter, spring, summer.

She came to see. I have no photo of Simon to show her, no trace except for these stolen shots, taken from the windows of his home overlooking the Jaures metro station: the canal, cars, neighborhood life and this handful of Afghan refugees beneath the Lafayette arch... She watches with me, She questions me, we watch the seasons of this last year of my life with Simon pass, the final months of the refugees' wearying battle to find a place here in Paris. Of course, it's over now, the camp and the love affair, but She and I know that from here on, quite naturally, the world has been ever so slightly... transformed.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 22 March, 2015.