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Locarno Festival
After his shock series, Bron returns through the documentary box
After “The Deal”, projected on the Piazza Grande, the Vaud filmmaker presents a documentary on the construction of a cinema, “the site”.
At the heart of the microsociety that works to reconstruct a cinema.
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- The Vaudois director Jean-Stéphane Bron presents his documentary on the reconstruction of a Pathé room.
- The film follows carefully the unique microsociety which is organized around the site.
- The Seydoux family contributes to safeguarding this Parisian historic cinema.
- The documentary explores the cohabitation between architects and workers on the project.
A bron can often hide another. In addition to the first episodes of his series “The Deal». Consequently, Diplomatic thriller and fiction around Iranian nuclear negotiations shown in Locarno on Piazza Grande, the Vaud filmmaker is also in Ticino to present his new documentary,” Le Chantier “. Similarly, Close to the immersion film. For example, he proposes to follow the reconstruction of a legendary Pathé cinema, in Paris, under the direction of the famous architect Renzo Piano.
At the heart of Paris, the rebirth of a legendary room.
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His approach is comparable with that of a Frederick Wiseman. However, who immers himself entirely in a given biotope (a court, a medical center or the French comedy), voiceless or judgment. Moreover, For Jean-Stéphane Bron, it is the microsociety that agitates around the project that interests him in the first place. Furthermore, It is a question of diving into the heart of this project. of filming it from the point of view of decision -making bodies, architects or site managers, as well as that of small hands, workers or employees of cinema.
A reconstruction in Paris
Bron films but does not judge. He even retains his distance from a filmmaker to testify to a project turned to a future which we do not know almost everything. since we do not know what will happen to cinema or its consumption modes in the current century. “The site” follows with a certain compunction. an apparent freedom the stages of the Renaissance of a Pathé probably saved from death by the Seydoux family. The most interesting of the film is all those aside that are formed around the workers’ dynasty. which seems to work like a world inside another.
Because the microcosm in question is illusory. The restoration of a cinema is not the opposition of several worlds. architectural firms on one side, workers, masons and other performers on the other. Like a film shoot. the erection of a building, whatever it is, cinema: after his shock series, implies a cohabitation between several instances which do not necessarily complement each other. This is undoubtedly what interested Bron here. and even if we feel it stay carefully in its comfort zone (more than when it films Blocher), he manages to keep this intact image of documentary maker who knows how to take steps towards fiction.
Jean-Stéphane bron at work.
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Because with “The Deal”. which was presented the day before in Locarno, he completely left his comfort zone and even took the risks of paying a fiction that was also a question of conforming to the unconfedled wishes of his production (in this case the RTS). Building from one project to another. switching from multinational to neighborhood business (we schematize) requires one or more skills that all French -speaking filmmakers do not.
Locarno 2025 allowed Jean-Stéphane Bron to prove this duality. to establish himself as an all-terrain filmmaker (term that he would undoubtedly disappear, and we understand it) capable of triumphing on projects of various sizes. To do in short, “the site” does not make us discover a new bron. But his cohabitation with the “The Deal” series, however, fully takes care of it.
“The Deal”. to be seen in full on the Play RTS application from August 13, and on RTS 1 from August 28 at the rate of two episodes every Thursday at 9 p.m. rts.ch
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Cinema: after his shock series,
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