The filmmaker Alain Cavalier will be Tuesday February 11 at 1 p.m. at the Saint-André des Arts cinema to show Le Lieu du mélodrame , the new film by Joseph Morder, recently director of El Cantor and The Duchess of Warsaw , with Alexandra Stewart.
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This beautiful title is perfectly suited to the family apartment that Joseph Morder lived and filmed for half a century in Paris, after his childhood in Ecuador.
When he leaves, he lets go of the memories like birds flapping their wings between the walls. We visit the apartment under construction, already sold, being redone. But we find there those who lived there at all times, and in all formats: super 8, 16 or 35 mm, video.
A filmed newspaper
Family reunions or scenes shot in rooms that have become film sets, objects and voices of yesteryear, portrait of a loving and loved mother, the archives mix, sometimes confusedly, according to the irregular rule of this original camera handler who practices the newspaper filmed for a long time.
" The places I live in fascinate me ," he says. This is what I call the closed places of melodrama ”. It is there that we love and quarrel, that we sing and we sincerely cry, that we manage with everyday triviality.
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Like his friend Alain Cavalier, with whom he exchanged filmed correspondence, Joseph Morder captures the flow of life, the passage of time, the trace of loved ones. Their meeting at the Saint-André des Arts cinema (30 rue Saint-André des Arts) will charm moviegoers. These two “ filmers ” have in common modesty and humor. " It's a real estate film, where everything is homemade, " comments Joseph Morder.
● The Duchess of Warsaw by Joseph Morder, in 2015, with Alexandra Stewart, Andy Gillet, Françoise Michaud ...