A Living Landscape: The cinema of Dominique Marchais
Festival dei Popoli, in collaboration with the Embassy of France, Istituto Francese Italia, and Istituto Francese Firenze pays homage to the cinema of Dominique Marchais, a film-maker who has developed over the years a consistent career and an approach in continuous evolution, based on an idea of cinema that is not only an explorer but also a creator of landscapes. "A Living Landscape: The cinema of Dominique Marchais", curated by Daniele Dottorini, show us that, in Marchais’ films, landscapes are not just lifeless backdrops to human stories but actual characters, mobile territories that allow different lifestyles to take shape opposed to mainstream ones.
With his films Dominique Marchais goes through entire areas of French and European countryside with a gaze that manages to intercept the dreams, hopes, utopias, and disillusionment of those who live there and are permeated by the place.