Récréations
There is a kind of country, tiny, so small that it ressembles a theatre set. It is inhabited two or three times per day by its people. The inhabitants are small as well. Even if they live under certain laws, they repeatedly put them into question, which leads them to fight violenty with each other. This country is called "The Playground" and its people "The Children". When "The Children" go into "The Playground", they discover and feel the force of sentiment or human servitude - this is called "Playtime."
| Director | Claire Simon |
| Actor | Christine Chevarie |
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Claire Simon casts her gaze on a seemingly mundane, common place, but she reveals an entire universe where, in just a few minutes, true epics can unfold. At first, we marvel at the ability of children to amuse themselves with almost nothing—twigs on the ground, fences. Then, the filmmaker's attention to the children's staged scenes and their quarrels makes us wonder what these games contain.
Claire Simon has said about her film: "I feel like all the emotions in the world were in the schoolyard, that it became a place where one could see everything that was going to happen in the world." The schoolyard thus becomes a place to observe power dynamics: who leads, who follows, who rebels, who supports, who humiliates. And as adults, we cannot dissociate ourselves from these five-year-olds. We are just bigger, and our games sometimes more dangerous.
Christine Chevarie
Filmmaker
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English
54 mn
Language: English -
Français
54 mn
Language: Français
- Année 1993
- Pays France
- Durée 54
- Producteur Les Films d'Ici
- Langue French
- Sous-titres English
- Résumé court The playlets and tragedies from a kindergarten playground. Somewhere between burlesque, thriller and western.
- Ordre 2
Claire Simon casts her gaze on a seemingly mundane, common place, but she reveals an entire universe where, in just a few minutes, true epics can unfold. At first, we marvel at the ability of children to amuse themselves with almost nothing—twigs on the ground, fences. Then, the filmmaker's attention to the children's staged scenes and their quarrels makes us wonder what these games contain.
Claire Simon has said about her film: "I feel like all the emotions in the world were in the schoolyard, that it became a place where one could see everything that was going to happen in the world." The schoolyard thus becomes a place to observe power dynamics: who leads, who follows, who rebels, who supports, who humiliates. And as adults, we cannot dissociate ourselves from these five-year-olds. We are just bigger, and our games sometimes more dangerous.
Christine Chevarie
Filmmaker
-
English
Duration: 54 minutesLanguage: English54 mn -
Français
Duration: 54 minutesLanguage: Français54 mn
- Année 1993
- Pays France
- Durée 54
- Producteur Les Films d'Ici
- Langue French
- Sous-titres English
- Résumé court The playlets and tragedies from a kindergarten playground. Somewhere between burlesque, thriller and western.
- Ordre 2
