Country: France
Year: 2016
Duration: 55'
Ten years after his documentary Jour après jour, Jean-Paul Fargier reopens the chapter about Jean-Daniel Pollet in a new page of the series Cinéaste de notre temps by André S. Labarthe and Janine Bazin. Fargier brings together the recurring obsessions and reasons behind Pollet’s films and lets them talk to each other: Greece, Claude Melki, his screenplays, fiction versus non-fiction, movement versus static images, the idea of the so-called “concentrated duration.” Viewer, critic, collaborator, and admirer of Pollet’s work: Fargier creates a personal and passionate conversation punctuated with fragments from his films, interviews, and behind the scenes. [rm]
Biography
film director
Jean-Paul Fargier
Jean-Paul Fargier (Aubenas, France, 1944) is a filmmaker, TV producer, writer, journalist, art and film critic, and film professor. He collaborated with several magazines over the years, like “Tribune socialiste” (1967-1970), “Cinéthique» (1968-1973), “Cahiers du cinéma” (1978-1989), “Le Monde” (1980-1982 and 1993-1996), “Libération” (1982-1983), “Art Press” and “Turbulences Vidéo.” He also wrote two books, published a collection of articles under the title Tivi ou Tivi pas, and collective works like Oú va la vidéo? He was a member of the collective Groupe Cinéthique in the 1970s. He wrote several documentaries for television, and he was one of the pioneers of the video format in French cinema, especially after the exposition organized during the 1986 Avignon Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Quand on aime la vie on va au cinéma (come/as Groupe Cinéthique, doc., 1975), Godard/Sollers: L’entretien (doc., 1984), Vingt p’tites tours (serie tv/tv series, cm, doc., 1989), Impressionisme, les origines (doc., 1994), Un siècle d’écrivains (serie tv/tv series, ep. Curzio Malaparte, Charles Péguy, doc., 1995), La case de l’oncle Doc (serie tv/tv series, ep. Man Ray Monsieur machine à coudre, doc., 1998), Versailles, les jardins du pouvoir (tv, doc., 2001), Jour après jour (coregia/codirector Jean-Daniel Pollet, doc., 2006), M la maudite (tv, doc., 2007), Empreintes (serie tv/tv series, ep. Jérôme Savary, animal (pas) triste, doc., 2009), Reims la romaine (cm, doc., 2010), …Et de Gaulle créa la Cinquième (tv, doc., 2012), Parle-moi encore! (mm, doc., 2016).
Declaration
film director
“Words are the main theme. The words Jean-Daniel used in his images, documentaries, or fictional films. The words he shared with the writers, playwrights, and dialogue-writers he worked with. The movie itself is made of words, and musings about words. In a way, it’s a portrait of a specific set of words that would always pop up in Jean-Daniel’s work: ‘abyme’, ‘amour’, ‘association’, ‘compréhension’…”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Jean-Paul Fargier
contatti/contacts
La traverse
Gael Teicher
nostraverses@gmail.com
Jean-Paul Fargier
contatti/contacts
La traverse
Gael Teicher
nostraverses@gmail.com
