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Vivre est une solution

Film Information

Exhibition Title	Vivre est une solution
Original Title	Vivre est une solution
English Title	Living Is a Solution
Director	Gérard Courant
Country
Year	1980
Format	DM
Colour	Color
Duration	77'

Cast:

Intérpretes / Cast: Cécile

Production:

Dirección / Director: Gérard Courant
Guión / Scriptwriter: Gérard Courant
Fotografía / Cinematography: Gérard Courant
Edición / Editing: Gérard Courant
Producción / Producer: Gérard Courant
Compañía Productora / Production Company: K.O.C.K. Production

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Synopsis

Once again, Courant uses his own love for cinema as a source of inspiration; in this case, the trigger is Hotel du Nord (1938), directed by Marcel Carné and starred by Arletty. Vivre est une solution is a tribute to this actress, portrayed as if she was a new heroine that carries on every rite of passage in the two previous episodes of the Le Jardin des Abymes tetralogy. Yet now she is absent, and evoked as a ghost. Immersing himself in Paris after travelling through the Pyrenees in the previous segment, Courant approaches the sensitivity of the Nouvelle Vague to shoot his love letter for the French capital, including a cinephile evocation. It is not a coincidence that the movie he chose as an inspiration belongs to the French poetic realism, a period that took place before the war. In the same way as French poetic realism did, Courant seems to reconfigure over and over again the unforeseeable crossroads where lyric experimentation and documentary filmmaking meet.