a| FL Record f| 0946

a| Rossier, François, e| director.

a| Detour Calcutta

a| Détour par Calcutta

a| VHS (50 min.)

a| Moving image

a| Duration: 00:50:00

a| 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.

a| Documentary films

c| 31822 d| 31822

a| Switzerland : b| Belle Journée Productions, c| 2004.

a| eng j| eng

0| 0 1| 0 4| 0 5| 0 7| 0 8| FL 9| 90824 a| FL b| FL d| 2016-11-25 l| 0 r| 2016-11-25 w| 2016-11-25 y| VHS

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