A short 6-minute essay-documentary by Maurice Pialat on the region in which much of the action of Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble unfolds.
Direction
Pialat's gaze: indifferent, tender, brutally French.
Cinematography
Camargue as character — wild, lonely, stubbornly itself.
Director
Maurice Pialat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pialat shot this as a companion piece to his 1972 feature, using identical locations to create ghostly resonance between documentary 'reality' and fiction's emotional wreckage.
The Camargue region — wild horses, salt flats, outsider mystique — has obsessed French filmmakers from Tourneur to Téchiné. Pialat strips away the romance entirely.
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