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15th DMZ Docs(2023)

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Hi Mister Comolli

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Dominique CABRERA

  • France
  • 2023
  • 85min
  • 12 +
  • DCP
  • color

International Premiere

Synopsis

In 2021-2022, filmmaker, critic Jean-Louis Comolli and film director Dominique Cabrera meet up for open conversations which are filmed. Also present is Isabelle Le Corff, who is in the process of writing a book about Jean-Louis¡¯s work. They will be talking about the film they¡¯re about to make, films they¡¯ve made, and what those films have made of them. Also about life, death and gardens. There¡¯ll be laughter and smiles, because when you reach the age of eighty-four, there's no time to be serious. 

Review

 An insightful conversation between Jean-Louis Comolli, an important theorist of contemporary film theory, and the master director Dominique Cabrera. The eighty-one-year-old Comolli and the sixty-five-year-old Cabrera discuss cinema, life, love, politics, illness, death, and Chassagne-Montrachet in Comolli's cozy home. Their meetings took place several times before Comolli's passing in 2022 and were accompanied by the film scholar Isabelle Le Corff. Possessing both an intense passion for intellectual reflection and a generous laugh, Comolli was an adventurer and apostle of documentary, always ready to debate and argue. Blending documentary and fiction to explore human psychology, emotions, and politics, Cabrera shared with Comolli a sincere friendship, a love of his native Algeria, and a love of documentary. What could have been an impromptu conversation turns into a long, deep talk, traversing a wide range of topics. There are some patterns to the filming and editing. When Cabrera and Le Corff head to Comolli's house, the exterior view from the windshield of the car is fixed, and a tracking shot through a giant forest of books, or the library mediates the journey to Comolli. The presence, thoughts, and ways of being in the world of these two giants are unfiltered.

Director

  • Dominique CABRERA

    A graduate of IDHEC, Dominique Cabrera has directed Chronicle of an Ordinary Banlieue and Staying There, two unanimously acclaimed documentaries. With Demain and Encore Demain, 1995, she began a series of autobiographical films which would continue until A Mensch and Hi Mister Comolli, 2023. She turned to fiction, inspired by her documentaries, with freedom of form, with L'Autre Côté de la Mer, Le Lait de la Tendresse Humaine, Folle Embellie, and Corniche Kennedy. She has taught at Harvard.

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