Six years after the triumph of 120 beats per minute awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, director Robin Campillo returns with red island, his new feature film. Inspired by his childhood memories, the film takes place in Madagascar in the early 70s, and evokes the end of an era, that of colonialism.
Cinema is first of all a matter of gaze. Robin Campillo’s new film is even more than usual a film about the gaze.
It shows thegaze of a little boy observing his family between the slats of a moving box. It is also the gaze that spys on the couples who find themselves in front of the lovers’ tree, or the gaze that peers through the night at a young woman in the process of becoming free.
It is the look of a filmmaker – no doubt he was this little boy – on an era that is ending, that of colonialism, and on the beginning of another, that of a people who take the reins of their own history. . A shared view also on the beauty of the landscapes of this large island in the Indian Ocean that is Madagascar, and whose nickname, The Red Island gave the film its title.
After the triumph of 120 beats per minuteRobin Campillo presents The Red Island, a magnificent fresco around a family of expatriates who must leave a paradise that no longer belongs to them. With in the role of the mother,Nadia Tereszkiewicz, noticed in my crime by François Ozon and recently awarded the César for Best Female Hope for The Almond Trees by Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi.
The red island is released on French screens on Wednesday. Nadia Tereszkiewicz And Robin Campillo are guests of VMDN.
At the end of the show, Daphne Gastaldisurrenderedin Marseilles at“ Africa seen by Sembène, trajectory of a docker, writer and director »a tribute evening dedicated to Sembène Ousmane. The Senegalese director and writer would have had 100 years, this year. A collective has been created to celebrate the work of the “father of African cinema”, with events in Saint-Louis du Senegal, Marseille and even at the Cannes Film Festival.