Synopsis
After long years of hard times, singer and poet Georges Brassens used one of his first payments from a singing engagement to buy a camera. It is 1952, and the troubadour is not yet famous. He would go on to shoot footage over the next ten years, during which he moved from unknown beginnings to a fame, whose resonance would echo too loudly for this extremely shy man. Brassens filmed those he loved: his friends, family, wives and his cats. Sometimes he put the camera on a tripod and staged himself among his subjectes. At other times, the camera was passed from hand to hand and we glimpse him, mischievous and playful, demonstrating "a joie de vivre for which he was not well known," as Juliette Gréco says.
Shot in color and black and white, a multitude of private moments from the life of Georges Brassens.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Comic Strip Production
- Co-production : Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
- French distribution : Chapeau Melon Distribution
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Thierry Aflalou
- Screenwriter : Sandrine Dumarais
- Director of Photography : Johan Legraie
- Assistant director : Annabelle Gauthier
- Editor : Martin Mauvais
- Sound recordist : Yolande Decarsin
- Production manager : Najiba Kanane
- Press Attaché (film) : Stanislas Baudry
- Sound Editor : Grégoire Deslandes
- Sound Mixer : Grégoire Deslandes
- Narrator : Nathalie Dumarais
- Participants : Juliette Gréco, François Morel
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 2013
- French release : 30/10/2013
- Runtime : 1 h 13 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 137.871
- Visa issue date : 15/10/2013
- Approval :
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby Digital
- Rating restrictions : None