Country: Italy
Year: 2005
Duration: 67
This documentary studies the life and works of the French director Robert Guédiguian. The stages of the director's life are illustrated through a series of video interviews. Getting his start in cinema, his political involvement, his intellectual roots, the making of his first film, the box office success of Marius et Jeannette, all the way to the creation of the production company Agat. The film dwells in particular on Guédiguian's rapport with l'Estaque, the lower-class neighborhood of Marseilles where the author was born and where almost all his films were shot. It also concentrates on the "family," the cinematographic family with whom the director works. "Guédiguian's cinema is a 'time machine,' its themes, like its characters, travel over the course of the years, they are re-proposed, they renew themselves, they are faithful to themselves. The social context is the stage on which Guédiguian's people tirelessly walk, loving, falling down, endeavoring. We wanted to 'freeze' this man's ideology, the integrity of his work, his incredible tenaciousness. We wanted to study this communist heart." (A. Bozzolini, F. De Paolis)
Biography
film director
Angelo Bozzolini
(Rome, 1973) is a writer, director, and television producer, known for his ability to combine art, music, historical memory, and civic engagement. Among his most recent works: Il coraggio di essere Franco (2022), Parola ai giovani (2023), Enrico Mattei - Ribelle per amore (2023), Lucio per amico - Ricordando Battisti (2023), Tennis and Friends (2024), Cento e oltre - Puccini e noi (2025), Juventus - Il decennio d’oro (2025).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Italian Character (doc, 2013), Inventare il tempo I (doc, 2014), Inventare il tempo II (doc, 2015), La Scala - La storia segreta (doc, 2015), Teotronico - The Robot Pianist (doc, 2017), Grande amore (serie tv, 2019-2020), Clark und das große Konzert in der Sixtinischen Kapelle (doc, 2020), Notte di luce (doc, 2020), Il coraggio di essere Franco (doc, 2022), Parole ai giovani (doc, 2023), Lucio per amico - Ricordando Battisti (doc, 2023), Tennis and Friends (doc, 2024), Cento e oltre - Puccini e noi (doc, 2025), Juventus - Il decennio d’oro (doc, 2025).
Federica De Paolis
Federica De
Paolis (Rome, 1971)
has taught screenwriting
since 1999 as part of the Master’s degree in creative writing
at IED in Rome. Starting
in 2000 she has adapted dialog for television and cinema. In 2003 she
worked as
a script analyst for RaiCinema. She also works for various film and
audiovisual
magazines.
FILMOGRAFIA
De la famille
et d’un amour immoderéé
(doc., 2005).
