Proyecciones Especiales 2018

En attendant les barbares

Eugène Green I 2017 I 75'

SYNOPSIS

One night, six people knock on the door of a house where two magicians live; people seek protection because social networks have announced the imminent arrival of the barbarians. The film was born as a result of a formative action for young actors held in Toulouse, in which Green demonstrates one more time his critical look towards the cultural invasion coming from the other side of the ocean.

BIOGRAPHY

Eugène Green

EUGÈNE GREEN (United States, 1947) was born in New York but has lived in Paris since her youth. A regular at the Locarno Festival, in addition to her filmography, her interest in Baroque theatre and her literary work in the form of essays and poems are worth mentioning. At FILMADRID 2018 he will be giving the workshop "The actor in film".

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Critical text

The transmission, as a fundamental act of keeping alive the legacy that shapes us, supports the work of Eugène Green since his debut with Toutes les nuits (2001). On that path to the light of knowledge through language, the approach of En attendant les barbares reveals its deep congruence. Working hand by hand with the interpreters of the Chantiers Nomades workshop, located in Toulouse, the author not only makes them models of his refined style book, but also imbues them with Occitan’s rich cultural tradition, demonstrating that he thinks and represents the heritage of the past like few current filmmakers. The result of the process is a playful fiction where six characters have to renounce to technology to protect themselves in an anachronistic castle from the attack of “the barbarians”. Thus, with his usual, hopeful and ironic look, Green reminds us that, as long as we make knowledge survive as a refuge from the hegemonic monsters of ignorance and barbarism, not all will be lost to humanity. SERGIO DE BENITO

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