Christian Zarifian

A film by Christian Zarifian.

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September 1944. the Normandy landings took place three months earlier. Paris is liberated, the allied troops are in Belgium. It was then, on September 5 precisely, that the deadliest bombardment of the war in France took place on the harbor. The result is up to the means implemented by the English air force: 3000 dead, the heart of the city razed, annihilated, without any military reason. Table Rase describes this forgotten murder that continues to haunt the city. Military archives, news of the time, intervention of English pilots, hypothesis of a French colonel, views of the port and the city before the war, and especially testimonies of survivors, the film goes around what remains of the event.

Views from Here tells the story of Annie, a housewife and mother of three who begins to suffer from her cloistered, family-centered life. The only dream that brightens her life is the ongoing construction of a house in a housing development. When her husband's hours are reduced, putting this project in jeopardy, Annie starts looking for a job... and finds one. Her life is transformed.

Prepared and shot with a group of young workers, schoolchildren, the unemployed, etc., in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, in a neighborhood of Le Havre, On voit bien qu'c'est pas toi inaugurates a series of "collective" films, inspired by the impetus of 1968, which helped to make our filmmaking activity (somewhat) better known. The young people chose the documentary form to show their lives as they wanted them to be seen, that is, on a daily basis, in their premises, at work, on the town, with their families, on wild camping trips... In this way, they drew up a precise and detailed self-portrait of a milieu hitherto almost totally absent from the screens.

They are twenty years old, there are seven of them - four boys and three girls - and they decide to start a musical group (rather jazz). Their rehearsal space is a disused hangar on the port, which they are gradually furnishing. They work on their music assiduously, while living complicated, unsatisfactory romantic relationships, and repeated conflicts. Under the influence of the most passionate of them, the kind creative hobby becomes a fascinating activity. Until one day, at the end of their first public concert, they decide to live completely in the hangar and devote themselves to recording a model disc. Internal tensions and an external event will not take long to disturb the apparent harmony of their life outside the world.