First peplum in history
, (The Life of Christ,
in 1906
),
first film with an entirely African-American distribution, first "making of" ... All these innovations which are at the origin of our cinematographic language
are
due to a Frenchwoman, Alice Guy.
To discover
The peasant humor of Bodins does not make Paris laugh
A fair tribute
Valérie Urrea and Nathalie Masduraud, who tell in first person the incredible fate of the first director in the history of cinema, regret that her name has been
"passed over in silence"
all these decades and try to pay her a fair tribute with this documentary rightly entitled
Alice Guy, the unknown of the seventh art
.
They retrace his journey until his death in 1968, in great detail, notably using extracts from his works and archive or animation images commented by Alice Guy herself.
But also thanks to actresses Agnès Jaoui and Maud Wyler.
Leon Gaumont
Born Alice Ida Antoinette Guy on July 1, 1873 in Saint-Mandé (94), daughter of a stay-at-home mother and a bookstore publisher who died prematurely ...
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