Nadège Trebal: Scrap Yard / Blue Oil ( Casse / Bleu pétrole )

Nadège Trebal: Scrap Yard / Blue Oil (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Casse / Bleu pétrole
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

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

Running Time:
187 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2012-2013 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Nadège Trebal

Written By:
Nadège Trebal

Synopsis:

Scrap Yard: For many men, going to the scrapyard is the equivalent of getting together for coffee and cake: screwdriver in hand, they get chatting while disassembling crankshafts and shock absorbers, coolers and oil sumps. Even for the sort of men who are otherwise tight-lipped, regardless of the weather and not least when the screws just won't come loose. When they manage to salvage the exact part they were looking for and stow it away in a plastic bag, these tinkerers clad in oil-smeared boiler suits become poets: a Tunisian who rhapsodizes about his daughter's blue eyes and soft hair; a smoker who thinks women are more beautiful in the summertime and longs for the bustle of Mali's streets; another West African who talks about staring death in the face on a pirogue on his way to Europe, realising he was ready to die. Occasionally women too stray on to the scrapyard; a young girl puts a protective arm around her little brother, who is afraid of the forklift trucks. Blue Oil: Around and within a territory, an oil refinery located on the Loire estuary. Where hundreds of men toil at the transformation of crude oil, where others fuse ideas, materialize them on paper in this veritable "gas factory" that can be a local union, while others still take it easy during the few minutes of break which are allotted to them. Hundreds of silhouettes therefore, in work overalls, for a main character in the form of a union representative.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 July, 2020.