PREMIÈRE NORD-AMÉRICAINE / NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
GENET À TANGER
GENET À TANGER
Director
Guillaume De Sardes
Cast
Philippe Torreton
Producer
Mood Films
Scriptwriter
Guillaume De Sardes
Distributor
Mood Films
At the beginning of the 70s, Jean Genet is in Tangier, he is in his sixties and he no longer writes. He lives in the El Minza hotel, a palace, where he spends entire days reading, smoking and sleeping (he takes Nembutal, a barbiturate used as a sleeping pill). He only goes out at the beginning of the afternoon to have a coffee with milk in one of the bars of Petit Socco. He sometimes meets the young Moroccan writer Mohamed Choukri there. Their discussion is banal, friendly. Sometimes they talk about literature. Genet no longer writes, but is still inhabited by it.
WORDS FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ:
For his first fictional short film, Gulllaume de Sardes did not take the easy road. With GENET À TANGER, he brings the wanderings of the legendary writer in the Algerian city to film, presenting the passing of time and the encounters that mark it—somehow containing it all within a short time. Viewers will leave the film feeling like they’ve walked in the footsteps of Genet, magnificently played by Philippe Torreton. Bewitching. (Patrick Fabre)
WORDS FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM DE SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ:
For his first fictional short film, Gulllaume de Sardes did not take the easy road. With GENET À TANGER, he brings the wanderings of the legendary writer in the Algerian city to film, presenting the passing of time and the encounters that mark it—somehow containing it all within a short time. Viewers will leave the film feeling like they’ve walked in the footsteps of Genet, magnificently played by Philippe Torreton. Bewitching. (Patrick Fabre)
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