Maniquerville

Film Information:
Year:

2009

Maniquerville

País:

 

Director:

Pierre Creton

Color:

B&W

Format:

35 mm

Duration:

83 min

Cast:

  • INTÉRPRETES: Françoise Lebrun, Clara Le Picard

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Pierre Creton, Cyril Neyrat, Marie Vermillard
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Pierre Creton
  • MONTAJE: Ariane Doublet
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Thierry Lounas

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Capricci Films
  • 27 rue Adolphe Moitié
  • 44000 Nantes, France
  • T +33 2 4089 2059
  • F +33 2 4020 4459
  • E contact@capricci.fr
  • W www.capricci.fr

Synopsis

Maniquerville gerontology center, in the Pays de Caux (Normandy), accommodates elderly persons who suffer from neurodegenerative diseases. French actress Françoise Lebrun regularly comes from Paris to read out Proust to center residents. A strong bond has grown between her and center coordinator Clara Lepicard. Pierre Creton chooses to broaden the subject to another dimension, leaving behind the usual sociological approach. His project is a free but strictly accurate adaptation of Remembrance of Things Past (the text is read patiently, abundantly, intensely), as if the characters from the book were raising from its pages to become before our eyes the audience of their own life stories, the spectators to their own decrepitude. Rather than a sad inventory, Maniquerville brings about real metamorphosis. For instance, when turning an old lady’s face into a delicate white flower via a shot/ reverse shot. Or when drawing a parallel between the ravages of time on the residents and on the old building they used to live in, a Proustian house now empty and about to be pulled down.

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