Les Mains négatives

Negative Hands France 1979 | Marguerite Duras | vostEN | 14’ | digital | documentaire

De la nuit à l’aube, une longue marche dans un Paris désert, guidée par la voix de Marguerite Duras, s’adresse à un homme préhistorique dont les mains hantent les cavernes d’Altamira.

« A city symphony in silence. Follow Duras’ roving camera and melancholy musings on love and loneliness. Her words betray her images — a disjunction that defines her style. Against the ineluctable passage of time, her voice perdures, and meaning blooms from dissonance. » (Le Cinema Club)

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All We Imagine As Light

France-Inde-Luxembourg 2024 | Payal Kapadia | vostEN+FR | 115’ | digital | Cast :  Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam ► Grand Prix, Festival de Cannes 2024

In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha’s routine is disrupted by a surprise gift from her estranged husband, while her young roommate Anu struggles to find privacy with her partner.

« I did have a lot of influences such as Marguerite Duras’ Negative Hands (1978), which is a marvellous film about the city waking up with voiceover and music. That’s my favourite film of Duras’. It’s a very short film but it’s really nice. » (Payal Kapadia)

« Kapadia has established her rare talent for finding passages of exquisite poetry within the banal blank verse of everyday Indian life. » (Variety)