La rue… seul champ d’expérience valable.
André Breton
Marseilles – this yellow-studded maw of a seal with salt water running out between the teeth. When this gullet opens to catch the black and brown proletarian bodies thrown to it by ship’s companies according to their timetables, it exhales a stink of oil, urine and printers ink.
Walter Benjamin
Sometimes a piece of graffiti glimpsed on a faded wall is enough to evoke an idea for a film. La Beauté c’est ta tête, for example: an enigmatic aphorism hastily scribbled not far from a bar rooted in the heart of Noailles, the oldest district of Marseilles. A bar so tiny it’s like “your mother’s womb”, as one of the locals describes it. They don’t talk about philosophy here, but there are lots of stories floating around, because alcohol is doing the talking, creating a readiness to let oneself start sliding down the slippery slope. Lame ducks, who could have become thugs but are instead postal workers, these sons and daughters of drifters from all over, tossed around like nutshells by the waves of life, who rest a while on these grey imitation leather seats, their bodies pitching about in this drunken boat which is also their home port. The city is changing. It remains a slightly wild “stranger” that the Zimmerfrei collective (Massimo Carozzi, Anna de Manincor and Anna Rispoli) explores, in the company of these Bukowski-like night birds who still dream of the open seas and struggle to adjust to the ongoing gentrification of Marseilles.
direction ZimmerFrei
production ZimmerFrei, Lieux Publics and InSitu
distribution Bo Film
director of production Fabienne Aulagnier
producer Serena Gramizzi
executive production Elisa Schmidt
production assistant Marion Bourguelat
director of photography Roberto Beani
sound Massimo Carozzi
editing and second camera Anna de Manincor
interviews Anna Rispoli
editing assistants Gianluca Mattei, Davide Rossi
postproduction and color grading Andrea Camozzi K6blue, Walter Cavatoi
music Franco Fanfan Créa, Claude Debussy, Fanfare Vagabontu, Marcel Mouloudji, Orquestra Carlos
Di Sarli y Rufino, The Malachrino Strings, Richard Wagner
cast Damien Allabert, Rachel Allouche, Claire Astier, François Bacques, Franco Créa, Aminata Djalò,Agnes Bébé Forjoé, Stéphane Bisson, Catherine Chesneau, Eva Chevalier, Patrick Desbouiges, Véronique Derulle, Roberto Fuschino, Said Hamidona, Jargo Jakeda, Ben Kaci, Olivier Kattan, Annick Lobognon, Agnes Mavrin, Miloud Mahger, Eric Petit, Gérard Rémy, Jean-Pierre Secq, Roxane Servière
shooting format full hd, audio stereo
screening format DCP, Blue Ray
duration 60 min
origin France/Italy
year 2014
language French
subtitles English, Italian
distribution contact serenagramizzi@bofilm.it
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