Every day, AlloCiné recommends watching a movie (again) on TV. Tonight: Golden Swan Branch for Best Director at the 2012 Cabourg Film Festival.
After making François Mitterrand’s biographical film À la place du cœur, which dealt with racism, or Le Promeneur du champ de Mars, Robert Gédiguian, an avowed Marxist, is staging a new social drama he describes as a popular film: The Snow of Kilimanjaro, Loosely inspired by a poem by Victor Hugo, poor people.
The filmmaker takes the viewer into the world of the working class, in Marseille, more precisely in the working-class district of L’Estaque, where he spent his childhood. In front of his camera, his favorite actor Jean-Pierre Darossin plays Michel alongside Ariana Ascaride, who plays his wife Marie-Claire. The couple’s happiness is shattered when they become the victims of a brutal attack organized by one of the young workers fired with Michelle.
In the Un Certain Regard selection at Cannes, the film received a fifteen-minute standing ovation after its screening. Indeed, it is impossible to remain insensitive to the humanism of this sunny feature film (some scenes were shot in Super 16, which brings a warm grain to the image) and solidarity, a true ode to generosity and forgiveness. With a bonus young revelation, Anais Demostier, who plays Flo, the protagonists’ daughter.
The snow of Kilimanjaro Robert Guediguian with Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Gerard Meylan…
Tonight at Arte at 20:55.
Source: allocine
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