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TENTATIVE D’EPUISEMENT D’UN LIEU PARISIENréalisé par / directeb byJEAN-CHRISTIAN RIFFPREMIÈRE MONDIALEWORLD PREMIEREAu départ, le texte éponyme <strong>de</strong> Georges Perec qui <strong>en</strong> quelquesséqu<strong>en</strong>ces, nous livre une <strong>de</strong>scription précise, méticuleuse <strong>de</strong> la placeSaint-Sulpice à Paris, ramassée sur trois jours d’octobre 1974.Question, aussi simple que délicate, avec ses chausse-trapes : quepeut-il se passer <strong>en</strong>tre ce texte et le cinéma ? A l’écriture scrutatrice,porteuse d’une myria<strong>de</strong> <strong>de</strong> narrations possibles, s’attachant auxdétails, Riff répond par une captation docum<strong>en</strong>taire, à la banalitéaffichée, d’où n’émerge aucun événem<strong>en</strong>t saillant. Jouant <strong>de</strong>sr<strong>en</strong>contres (att<strong>en</strong><strong>du</strong>es) et <strong>de</strong>s écarts (inévitables, et non moinsatt<strong>en</strong><strong>du</strong>s), Jean-Christian Riff pr<strong>en</strong>d le parti <strong>de</strong> travailler l’intervale quisépare texte et images, <strong>de</strong> la coalesc<strong>en</strong>ce à la disjonction, orchestrantce décollem<strong>en</strong>t. Intervale <strong>de</strong>s mo<strong>de</strong>s <strong>de</strong> représ<strong>en</strong>tation auquel s’ajoutele passage <strong>du</strong> temps, plus <strong>de</strong> tr<strong>en</strong>te ans séparant ces <strong>de</strong>ux projets.Film sous contraintes donc, dont celle <strong>du</strong> temps <strong>de</strong> lecture, à l’image<strong>de</strong> celles que s’assignait Perec. Mais aussi reprise à la puissance <strong>de</strong>ux<strong>de</strong> l’<strong>en</strong>jeu <strong>du</strong> texte, dans une double t<strong>en</strong>tative, celle <strong>de</strong> la transpositioncinématographique et celle <strong>de</strong> l’épuisem<strong>en</strong>t <strong>du</strong> lieu, avec les mots etpar l’image. Comm<strong>en</strong>t un texte, ce texte précisém<strong>en</strong>t, nourrit l’image,qui, par retour, dans un va-et-vi<strong>en</strong>s incessant et paradoxal, nourrit cetexte. (NF)The film starts with Georges Perec’s eponymous text, which in a few sequ<strong>en</strong>cesprovi<strong>de</strong>s us with a meticulously precise <strong>de</strong>scription of the Place Saint-Sulpice inParis, conc<strong>en</strong>trated into three days in October 1974. A question that is as simpleas it is <strong>de</strong>licate, fraught with traps: how might this text and cinema interact? Riffresponds to this searching text – with a host of possible narratives inher<strong>en</strong>t in itand steeped in <strong>de</strong>tail – with a docum<strong>en</strong>tary adaptation focused on <strong>de</strong>liberateundisguised banality, from which nothing of note emerges. Playing with (expected)<strong>en</strong>counters and (inevitable and no less expected) <strong>de</strong>viations, Jean-Christian Rifftakes on the task of exploring the gap betwe<strong>en</strong> text and images, from coalesc<strong>en</strong>ceto disjunction, orchestrating this <strong>de</strong>tachm<strong>en</strong>t as he does so. This gap betwe<strong>en</strong>mo<strong>de</strong>s of repres<strong>en</strong>tation is acc<strong>en</strong>tuated by the passage of time – more than thirtyyears separate the two projects.So this film is subject to certain constraints, from the time it takes to readthe text, to those which Perec took upon himself. These are, however, amplifiedstill further wh<strong>en</strong> the text itself is at stake – wh<strong>en</strong> a twofold task is confronted:that of transposing the text to the scre<strong>en</strong> and the exhaustive repres<strong>en</strong>tation ofplace through both words and images. We need to ask ourselves how a text,this particular text, can sustain the image, which, in return, in a constant andparadoxical to-ing and fro-ing, sustains the text. (NF)FRANCE<strong>2007</strong>CouleurHDV73’Version originaleFrançais et latinImage, sonJean-Christian RiffMontageAgnès BruckertPro<strong>du</strong>ction,distributionLes Films d’iciFilmographieS’éloigner <strong>du</strong> théâtre,2004Le prix <strong>de</strong> la lumière,2001La parole <strong>du</strong> muet,1998116

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