Synopsis
From the peaceful French countryside to the landscapes scarred by abandoned steelworks in the Lorraine, A French Life travels through the France of yesterday and today. The intimacy of an individual journey opens on to a collective history. The narrator's buried childhood is reborn, and with it comes a procession of ghosts. The 1960s, the Algerian War, and the turning back of time, which resembles a descent into hell as it exhumes the lives of Algerian steelworkers, melting iron and factories now long gone.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : La Vie est Belle
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Christophe Delsaux
- Screenwriter : Abdallah Badis
- Director of photography : Claire Mathon
- Music Composer : Archie Shepp
- Editor : Sophie Mandonnet
- Sound recordists : Nicolas Waschkowski, Arnaud Julien
- Sound editor : Myriam René
- Sound mixer : Myriam René
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Immigration, Work
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 56 min
- Visa number : 127.681
- Visa issue date : 03/12/2010
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : DTS SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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