Nous / Athenaïse presente ; Arte France ; avec le soutien du CNC ; Fonds Images de la Diversité ; Cinecap 3 ; un film de Alice Diop.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Diop, Alice, 1979- film director.

Blum, Sarah (Cinematographer), director of photography.

Verdet, Sylvain, director of photography.

Alline, Clément, director of photography.

David, Amrita, editor of moving image work.

Athénaïse Production (Firm), production company, presenter.

Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

Centre national de la cinématographie (France), production company.

Fonds Images de la Diversité, production company.

Cinecap 3, production company.

New Story (Firm), publisher.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Passenger trains--Social aspects--France--Paris.

Passenger trains.

Paris (France)--Social life and customs.

Paris (France).

Minorities--France--Paris.

Minorities.

Immigrants--France--Paris.

Immigrants.

Manners and customs.

France--Paris.

Genre:

documentary film.

Documentary films.

Feature films.

Nonfiction films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in. color

Place of Publication:

[Paris, France] : New Story, [2022]

Language Note:

French dialogue.

System Details:

DVD, PAL, Region 2; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation;, Dolby Audio 5.1; Dolby Audio 2.0.

digital

optical

stereo surround

Dolby digital 5.1 Dolby digital 2.0

sound

PAL

video file

DVD video

region 2

Summary:

"The RER B is an urban train that traverses Paris and its environs from north to south. A moving testament to the importance of filming as a process of bearing witness and remembering, Nous is subtle and shrewd in a world which favors shortcuts and easy answers. Justifiably adopting the fragmented structure of a patchwork portrait in order to describe a riven society, Diop displays impressive control of her essay and its impact. In the film's first few minutes, a deer is observed, through binoculars. Isolation, discrimination and nostalgia for hierarchies, inherited from a monarchical past... Divisions haunt France's present. But the human urge to give as well as to receive stubbornly creeps into every situation,observed or triggered. Could this be the one thing that still keeps a nation together?"--www.new-story.eu

"Encounters on a rail line crossing north to south thru Paris and its outskirts: A cleaning lady, a scrap merchant, a writer, a nurse, a follower of hunts and the filmmaker herself"--IMDb.

Credits:

Photography, Sarah Blum, Sylvain Verdet, Clément Alline ; editor, Amrita David.

Notes:

Originally produced as a documentary in 2021.

Wide screen.

Special feature: Alice Diop interview with Rokhaya Diallo.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

OCLC:

1343755770

Publisher Number:

3701432012261

EDV 2573 New Story

Online:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14038600/