Alain Aubert-Dechartre
Directing
Biography
Alain Aubert-Dechartre is a French director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques in Paris, Alain Aubert-Dechartre began his career as director of the film department at the Franco-Nigerian Cultural Center in Niamey. Over the course of his career, he has directed several short and feature films, including Four Days of a Partisan, selected at Cannes in 1975 and restored in 2021. In addition to directing, Alain Aubert-Dechartre is a lecturer, training director, and general secretary of the Festival Francophone des Années 70 in Dinard. He also participates in the creation and editing of journals and books on film theory. He handed over all his documents to André Colleu during the creation of the Cinémathèque de Bretagne, of which he was one of the first depositors.
Known For
2039... A third world war on every continent... Isolated in an old building with his partner, a young man refuses to seek shelter during an alert. He rejects all historical awareness. But tragic circumstances will decide otherwise. Day One: BEYOND THE WIND. Day Two: VERTICAL COMBAT. Day Three: HORIZONTAL COMBAT. 2045. Day Four: BEYOND THE WIND.
Four Days of a Partisan
Here is a film that is, to say the least, singular. A fiction filmed under Giscard, in two farming families, one in Brittany and the other in Languedoc. One sees the Catholic mass and the mass of the television news, one hears the Benedicite and the Internationale, a rural class struggle is played out, daily peasants against the aristos in the middle of a hunt...Chronicle of the Sad Years tells the story of the new forms of subjection suffered by the workers of the land, discovering the perverse effects of the CAP and the growing influence of agribusiness. A film in which the director, Alain Aubert-Dechartre, stages a historical turning point, the forced conversion of peasants into technicians of farms of which they will be the first to be exploited