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Marcel Ophüls
2013 - 106 min - Vidéo HD - Couleur - France
It is 18 years since Marcel Ophuls shot a film. To be frank, after the 1994 “bomb”, as he himself calls the impressionistic Veillées d’Armes / The troubles we’ve seen: A history of journalism in wartime, Ophuls withdrew from the world of film. We have heard not a word from the master.
Until now, for Ophuls, at 85, still irascible and bearing a penetrating gaze, it was time to return.
The man who gave us The Sorrow and the Pity and Hotel Terminus (Academy Award for Best Documentary 1989) still has something to say: a brisk recounting of his picaresque life.
We see pass in the parade the great Max Ophuls, his father ; World War II and his flight from the Nazis across the Pyrenees ; Hollywood ; Japan ; the French New Wave ; François Truffaut, Marcel’s indefatigable friend ; Jean Luc Godard ; New York ; Germany ; Switzerland… even Léon (his dog). has more than a cameo. The path of an engaged life, a life full of life and larger than life.
Author-Director : Marcel Ophüls
Photography : Vincent Jaglin, Pierre Boffety
Sound : Pierre Armand
Editing : Sophie Brunet, Pascale Alibert
Delegate Producer : The Factory Productions
Co-producer : Ina (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel)
Co-producer : Inthemood
Broadcasting Co-producer : ARTE France
Broadcasting Co-producer : France Télévisions
Contribution : CNC, Procirep, Angoa-Agicoa, Région Basse-Normandie, Région Aquitaine, Région Languedoc-Roussillon, Conseil général des Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Scam - Brouillon d'un rêve