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100    Rossier, François, |edirector.
242    Detour Calcutta
245    Détour par Calcutta
300    VHS (50 min.)
337    Moving image
500    Duration: 00:50:00
520    One day, the director meets a friend of the mayor of Calcutta who asks him: "You're a film maker, aren't you? Why don't you make a film about our mayor?!" That is how the film was born. Originally planned as a simple portrait of Calcutta's mayor, it gradually becomes - through various difficulties met on location (bureaucracy, the director's preconceived ideas, heat) - an essay on tinkering about, and chaos, and a reflection on the documentary genre. In this shooting diary, the director speaks in first person voiceover, without trying to hide what's off camera. On the contrary: that's where he points his lens, looking for a good subject, because his main character - the mayor - disappears after the first third of the shoot. We are taken through an Indian sub-continent metropolis of 17 million inhabitants, led by astonishing chances which the director - a little Swiss - reorganizes in his own style, so that his beautiful escape becomes ours too.
655 4  Documentary films
260    Switzerland : |bBelle Journée Productions, |c2004.
041    eng |jeng
952     |00 |10 |40 |50 |70 |8FL |990824FL |bFL |d2016-11-25 |l0 |r2016-11-25 |w2016-11-25 |yVHS
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966     |cIn the Research Room