CRITICAL – The director of Marius and Jeannette evokes the revolutionary and dancing fever which seized Mali in 1962. A nice film but too didactic. We had left Robert Guédiguian in Marseille in Gloria mundi , horribly reactionary film, overwhelming the youth with all evils (debauchery, greed), under the disillusioned gaze of his generation (he […]
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Marseille and the South dream of Hollywood
INVESTIGATION – Despite the local bickering, the film industry is getting ready for battle to establish itself from 2024 as a global filming center, like London, Paris and Los Angeles. It was last spring. Costa-Gavras, president of the Cinémathèque française, telephones Robert Guédiguian and Ariane Ascaride. “He had the idea of creating a Marseille branch […]