Paris, mai 1962.
La guerre d’Algérie vient de s’achever.
Marker et Lhomme filment les rues, les visages, les paroles.
Un inventeur, une couturière, un balayeur…
Texte markerien, voix de Montand, musique de Legrand.
Un chef-d’œuvre du cinéma-vérité.
Un poème politique.

🎞 À voir ici : https://www.cinemutins.com/le-joli-mai

#LeJoliMai #ChrisMarker #PierreLhomme #CinemaVerite #Paris1962

Vision Du Réel – The Mountains Won’t Move

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Vision Du Réel is a documentary film festival that takes place every year, or almost. It is an opportunity to watch documentary films on a screen bigger than a laptop or television. Many films are screened with the director/producer but they are also screened a second time. Yesterday I went to watch The Mountains Won't Move. It is an observational, cinéma verité style film.

There is no narration. There are no subtitles. Almost everything takes place in the mountains. You watch people at work, taking care of sheep, goats and cows. They also spend time speaking about a dog they appreciate.

What differentiates observational/cinéma verité/direct cinéma from other styles of documentary is that it has time to breath. What you see is what you get. There is no breathless narrator, over the top music and fast paced editing. If we went back in time, too far, this is Vertovian Life Unaware cinéma. As with Nannok of the North this documents the end of a culture.

The culture that it documents 'the end of' in theory, is life as a sheppard. Having said this they still exist in Switzerland and other places but the job has changed since then.

Part of me thought "But if sheppard culture vanishes hiking culture, via ferrata and more can replace it. In reality, the Via Alpina, Via ferrata and more are making the mountains more attractive for a diversity of sports. Former sheppard should become guides.

Such documentaries are refreshing because at the same time as they are "about nothing", they capture a part of life that may soon vanish. That's why such documentaries have value.

For me, documentary watching is a solo experience. I have watched thousands of documentaries over the years, in solitude. It's an interesting experience to people laugh at some scenes, and to be in a cinema, with others. To be pedantic it is a Salle Communale.

I get to see these films for "free" by being a volunteer at the festival. In exchange for doing four hour shifts I get to watch any documentary I want, as long as there is space remaining.

#cinémaVerité #documentary #mountains #observational #rural #sheperds

Sans toit ni loi / Vagabond (1985)

Vagabond (French: Sans toit ni loi, "without roof or law") is a 1985 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. It tells through flashbacks the story of a vagabond who wanders through the Languedoc-Roussillon wine country one winter, beginning after her body is found. The film premiered at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. Vagabond was nominated for four César Awards, with Bonnaire winning Best Actress. The film was the 36th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 1,080,143 admissions in France.

https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2025/04/sans-toit-ni-loi-vagabond-1985.html

#Anarchy #Travellers #CinémaVérité #Paganism

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of February 21: diplomacy

Laukaus tehtaalla [A Shot in the Factory] (Erkko Kivikoski, 1973)

The killing of the factory's boss by one of the workers leads to endless negotiations between the two parties. Shot in #CinémaVérité style, with a mostly amateur cast, the story echoes the working classes' insecurity caused by the 1973 energy crisis.

https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-3htw

#ErkkoKivikoski #UrpoPoikolainen #AarneHakulinen #PenttiViljakainen #ArtturiHaikonen #cinemastodon #film

How ‘The Featherweight’ Flawlessly Replicates the Look and Sound of the 1960s
#IndieWire #CraftTechnologySoundandSetDesign #Features #CinemaVerite #Film #RobertKolodny #TheFeatherweight #TopoftheLine

https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/featherweight-movie-director-robert-kolodny-60s-docs-interview-1235046448/

– They've created a desert and have called it “#peace”.

#OnThisDate, April 16, Culloden (Peter Watkins, 1964) is the #FilmDuJour. #PeterWatkins #UK #war #CinémaVérité #TVMovie #drama #docudrama #1960s #film #cinema #CineMastodon @film ★★★★☆