1937 was the last summer before war. Picasso, Man Ray and friends, passionate artists and poets, gathered in the South of France. This is the journey of the end of a great artistic era.
Discover the summer of 1937, in Mougins. This film recounts the end of a great artistic era over one particular summer. Photography, painting, poetry, and cinema were all mixed in the carefree spirit and friendship… But very quickly the war arrived, and everything changed, the world was upended and so was art; the film tells of this epiphany, this ephemeral moment that probably only existed precisely because everyone felt the end of this era was coming.
Discover the summer of 1937, in Mougins. This film recounts the end of a great artistic era over one particular summer. Photography, painting, poetry, and cinema were all mixed in the carefree spirit and friendship… But very quickly the war arrived, and everything changed, the world was upended and so was art; the film tells of this epiphany, this ephemeral moment that probably only existed precisely because everyone felt the end of this era was coming.
| Director | François Lévy-Kuentz |
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François Lévy-Kuentz
For more than 25 years, François Lévy-Kuentz has devoted most of his work as a documentary filmmaker to films on art, with monographs on artists such as Pascin, Marc Chagall, Man Ray, Yves Klein, Salvador Dali, Piet Mondrian, and Alexander Calder, as well as films on pictorial movements: Le Scandale Impressionniste, Quand l’art prend le pouvoir, and La face cachée de l’art américain. These documentaries, which have won awards at numerous international festivals, have been the subject of several retrospectives in the Brussels, Mexico City, Sao Paulo and Jerusalem film archives. François Lévy-Kuentz was made a Chevalier de Arts et des Lettres in 2014.
Jean-Paul Belmondo is for him an enigma that has fascinated him for so many years and that he had to uncover. François Lévy-Kuentz has uncovered Belmondo and his “ethics of distraction”, an original and iconoclastic look at one of the sacred monsters of cinema.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Jean-Paul Belmondo is for him an enigma that has fascinated him for so many years and that he had to uncover. François Lévy-Kuentz has uncovered Belmondo and his “ethics of distraction”, an original and iconoclastic look at one of the sacred monsters of cinema.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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