Yves Montand sings for refugees while Chris Marker captures ghosts in the crowd.
This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.
Direction
Marker watches the audience harder than the star.
Editing
Cuts between performance and faces build unbearable tenderness.
Director
Chris Marker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot at the peak of Chilean solidarity movements in France, when hosting refugee benefits was fashionable — Marker strips away the trend to find genuine human fracture.
Marker considered destroying this; he thought it too 'easy.' He was wrong — the tension between his formal rigor and Montand's emotional openness creates something neither could achieve alone.
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