Lettre à la prison
- ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FR
- SUBTITLES EN - FR
- COUNTRY France
- Duration 70
- Prices 9.00 €, 7.00 €, 6.50 €, 6.00 €
- Moderator ticket Article 27, Arsène 50
- Abonnement Carte 5 places, UGC Unlimited, Cineville Pass
Synopsis
In 1970, a young tunisian comes for the first time in France, sent by his family to help his elder brother, wrongly accused of murder and imprisoned in Paris. He arrives by boat in Marseille where he meets tunisians who are eerily different from those he knew in Tunisia; he meets french people who seem enigmatic to him, and a rather disturbing atmosphere that makes him doubt little by little what he thought he knew : his brothers innocence, his own innocence, his own mental integrity. It's a cultural and personal identity put in jeopardy, in a post-colonialism background.
Synopsis
In 1970, a young tunisian comes for the first time in France, sent by his family to help his elder brother, wrongly accused of murder and imprisoned in Paris. He arrives by boat in Marseille where he meets tunisians who are eerily different from those he knew in Tunisia; he meets french people who seem enigmatic to him, and a rather disturbing atmosphere that makes him doubt little by little what he thought he knew : his brothers innocence, his own innocence, his own mental integrity. It's a cultural and personal identity put in jeopardy, in a post-colonialism background.
TW this film displays scenes of violence against women and animals.
Made in 1969, Lettre à la Prison was censored by the CNC. It was only in 2009, thanks to Chloé Scialom, the director’s daughter, and the work of Polygone étoilé, that the film was restored and broadcasted. Lettre à la Prison addresses the question of the place of North African immigrants in France in the 1970s, making this work a trace of the history of the country’s racism towards people from it’s colonies.
L'heure d'été aims to broadcast recent works to immerse our spectators in the current cinematography of a city to an international audience, this festival will also be an opportunity to highlight different phases of the golden age of cinemas anchored in Marseille with the aim of allowing spectators to discover or rediscover classic films and films rarely presented on the big screen.
