Retour à Reims (Fragments)

Returning to Reims

International Documentary

Country: France
Year: 2021
Language: French
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Runtime: 80 mins.

Freely adapted from the eponymous novel by Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims tells in archives an intimate and political story of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to today.

DIRECTOR
Jean-Gabriel Périot

Born in France in 1974, Jean-Gabriel Périot has made several short films on the frontier of documentary, experimental, and fiction. He developed his own style of film editing that explores violence and history using film and photography archives. His films, Dies Irae, Even if she had been a Criminal, Nijuman no borei (200,000 Fantasmas) and The Devil have received awards from several festivals around the world. His first feature length film A German Youth, opened the Panorama section of the 2015 Berlinale before being released in German, French and Swiss movie theaters and receiving multiple awards. Summer Lights, his first feature-length fiction premiered at the San Sebastian film festival and was released in France in the summer of 2017. Our Defeat was presented at the Forum for the 2019 Berlinale and Returning to Reims, adapted from the book by Didier Eribon and narrated by Adèle Haenel, was selected for the Director’s Fortnight at 2021 Cannes film festival.

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot
Cinematography: Julia Mingo
.
Production: Marie-Ange Luciani.
Screenplay: Jean-Gabriel Périot.
Music: Michel Cloup
.
Sound: Yolande
 Decarsin
.
contacto: theo.lionel@thepartysales.com



 Screenings

León
20.9.2021
14:00 (Horario CST)
Auditorio Mateo Herrera

GIFF OnLine
disponible a partir del:21.9.2021
00:00 (Horario CST)
GIFF OnLine

San Miguel de Allende
23.9.2021
15:00 (Horario CST)
Teatro Santa Ana | Biblioteca Pública