Atelier de conversation

Atelier de conversation 2017

6.70

Once a week in Paris a group of individuals from all corners of the world meet in a small room at Centre Pompidou to participate in free French lessons. Asylum seekers, businessmen, doctors, lawyers, and students sit side-by-side and immerse themselves in polite, if stilted, conversation. However, tensions and misunderstandings occur as the nuances which each participant attempts to express become lost as they struggle to access the language. But despite their differences - and linguistic limitations - the disparate group of strangers in a foreign land find, in the small gestures and subtle looks between the words, a way towards understanding.

2017

Violent Days

Violent Days 2004

1

A group of pals are united by their love of Fifties rock’n’roll, the fact that they’re working class and the outsider status this confers upon them. This weekend, the group, accompanied by the girlfriend of one of their members, and more or less their scapegoat, has decided to head to Havre for a concert. The whole rockabilly community is there. As they hang out, beer flows and fights erupt. And so the night passes.

2004