A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad. This is a motionless journey in the Gare du Nord in the company of Simon Mérabet, a friend from southern France of Algerian origin. The film, like a book, collects what each one writes in it: their final words before vanishing. And, in passing through all this, Simon recalls that he is an immigrant’s son.
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
un film de Claire Simon - SociétéA documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad. This is a motionless journey in the Gare du Nord in the company of Simon Mérabet, a friend from southern France of Algerian origin. The film, like a book, collects what each one writes in it: their final words before vanishing. And, in passing through all this, Simon recalls that he is an immigrant’s son.
A documentary portrait of the Gare du Nord. Countless people pass through the station and cross it, whether they come from the Paris suburbs, provincial France or abroad. This is a motionless journey in the Gare du Nord in the company of Simon Mérabet, a friend from southern France of Algerian origin. Fleeting encounters in which each person relates his or her life in a few words before taking a train and vanishing. All of a sudden, the crowd of travellers comes to life through intersecting stories, one life then another, while globalisation forges destinies subjected to geography and the economy… The film, like a book, collects what each one writes in it: their final words before vanishing. And, in passing through all this, Simon recalls that he is an immigrant’s son.
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Data sheet
- Buy the DVD
- http://www.potemkine.fr/Potemkine-fiche-film/Gare-du-nord-geographie-humaine/pa11m5pr13939.html
- Directed by
- Claire Simon
- Year
- 2014
- Genre
- Société
- With
- Simon Mérabet
- Editing
- Catherine Rascon
- Author
- Claire Simon
- Photography
- Claire Simon
- Sound
- Olivier Hespel
- Mixage
- Dominique Vieillard
- Producer
- Les Films d'Ici
- Executive producer
- Richard Copans
- Co-producers
- Film Factory
- Original soundtrack
- Miles Davis
- Partners
- Procirep/Angoa
- Format
- HDCAM
- Manager of production
- Nelly Mabilat
- Langue
- français anglais
- Available version
- VF-VSTA
- Length
- 1'40''
- ISAN
- 0000-0002-FDF7-0000-Z-0000-0000-6
- International sales
- The Party Film Sales
- Video publisher
- Blaq Out
- Special mention
- Prix FEDEORA au CROSSING EUROPE Festival 2014
- Non-commercial sales
- Les Films d'Ici
Panel Tool
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