Exceptional Event
In partnership with:
Ville de Martigues, Les Friends of the Festival and
the bookstore-Clause
Friday, September 3, 2010 at 18:30
THE COMMON
A film by Peter Watkins
France, 2007, 3:30
Part 1 - Part 2-Buffet Communard
Unique Price: 6 euros
In the presence of
Claude Willard
President Friends of the Paris Commune -1871
The initial release of this film, shot in black and white in 1999 and presented in 2000 at the Musée d'Orsay, was 5 h 45. Its reduction to 3 h 30 is part of an effort to facilitate access to the film, while the filmmaker known for years enormous difficulties to distribute its work built against the currents of the official canon.
activist for the emergence of an alternative and democratic process in the field of audiovisual medium, Peter Watkins has invented a word, "monoform" to define this struggle against what it: this narrative device, used by television and cinema commercial, which imposes a "strafing dense and rapid Sights and Sounds", with abrupt cuts designed to create a shock effect, and manipulation.
Shot in thirteen days, following strictly the chronology events, he consciously blurs notions of documentary, fiction or historical reconstruction and undermines the usual criteria document and the television saga Hollywood to force the viewer to reflect on the film's form, teach him distrust, encouraging challenge to contingency media.
The Commune, played by the unemployed, the entertainment, undocumented, provincial Montreuillois allows the public to play its own history, to link the issues of the Paris revolution of 1871 and those of May 68 or today. Peter Watkins sets up the arrival of television reporters Versailles and Television Communard, microphones in hand, raising one hand, a soothing rhetoric, calling law enforcement, the fight against "leaders who are not, mostly French," and the other evidence of insurgent people. This unusual approach can not be accused of anachronism since the movie is displayed openly as interpreted by contemporaries that react according to criteria of their time.
We read, written by film historians stigmatizing any particular attempt, it was impossible to film a revolution. Watkins proves otherwise. The Commune mocks the facts, ignores Louise Michel and Jules Vallès, to film a thought, ideas, give voice to people, mean that this period marked the beginning of a reflection. And returns echoes contemporary: racism, women's roles, social inequality, censorship, school ... In
located closer to the common people - whether they are street kids, workers, artisans, small businessmen, civil servants, soldiers, intellectuals, priests, bourgeois ... - in Paris in 1871, La Commune by Peter Watkins - building bridges with our society today - we wake to remind us that history is a living, evolving, and that at any moment we can become agents lucid, conscious and responsible.
To go further:
The Rebound
Association for the promotion and dissemination of
film "La Commune (Paris 1871)" by Peter Watkins
(click image)
The Commune, played by the unemployed, the entertainment, undocumented, provincial Montreuillois allows the public to play its own history, to link the issues of the Paris revolution of 1871 and those of May 68 or today. Peter Watkins sets up the arrival of television reporters Versailles and Television Communard, microphones in hand, raising one hand, a soothing rhetoric, calling law enforcement, the fight against "leaders who are not, mostly French," and the other evidence of insurgent people. This unusual approach can not be accused of anachronism since the movie is displayed openly as interpreted by contemporaries that react according to criteria of their time.
located closer to the common people - whether they are street kids, workers, artisans, small businessmen, civil servants, soldiers, intellectuals, priests, bourgeois ... - in Paris in 1871, La Commune by Peter Watkins - building bridges with our society today - we wake to remind us that history is a living, evolving, and that at any moment we can become agents lucid, conscious and responsible.
To go further:
The Rebound
Association for the promotion and dissemination of
film "La Commune (Paris 1871)" by Peter Watkins
(click image)
Interview with Peter Watkins
In 2001, the association "Bounce to the Commune" achieves a 30-minute film document entitled "Peter Watkins - Lithuania. Filmed in the backdrop of a surreal theme park pro-Soviet, a few dozen kilometers from Vilnius, Peter Watkins discusses the experience of the Commune, talks about his work, the genesis of the film, his position of director stage and, more broadly, the crisis of mass audiovisual media today.
MEDIA CRISIS -
Statement filmmaker Peter Watkins about the production company 13 product " Common "and belongs to Lagardère.
This message is in the introduction to his film" La Commune "(PARIS 1871): film version of 3:30.
Preview Film Ménégoz R. "La Commune de Paris, 1952. Music by Joseph Kosma.
Commentary by Henri Julien Bertheau said LOW (who played the role of the student in idle "Life is Ours" by Renoir) of the French Academy.
With songs of Henry interpreted LOW Vocals by "Moquet Guy" and "Hope". The poems are by Eugene Pottier.
Under the Earth Festival of Resistance
a projection of
Most Beautiful Struggles
held Thursday, September 2 at 18:30
to the conference room Martigues
a projection of
Most Beautiful Struggles
held Thursday, September 2 at 18:30
to the conference room Martigues
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