In 2015, Clément Cogitore signed
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
, an original and ambitious first film, already unveiled at Cannes during Critics' Week.
Jérémie Renier, a captain assigned to a surveillance mission in a remote valley in Afghanistan, saw his men mysteriously disappear.
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Seven years later, Cogitore, also a visual artist and videographer, returned to the cinema after having exhibited in museums and staged
Les Indes galantes
at the Paris Opera.
We find in
Goutte d'Or
, his second feature film, the themes and atmosphere of his first (belief, mysticism bordering on the fantastic).
Cogitore plants his camera this time in the 18th arrondissement, where he lived when he landed in Paris.
Not Amélie Poulain's postcard for tourists.
The other side, infamous, is the Goutte d'Or district.
Summoned by the neighborhood marabouts, Ramses is accused of unfair competition.
His father respected his colleagues and did not steal their customers.
Today he is an old madman who curses passers-by in the street
Around the Barbès-Rochechouart metro, kingdom of contraband cigarette sellers, thugs and clairvoyants.
It is here that Ramses reigns, seeing appreciated by…
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