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SABLÉ-SUR-SARTHE, SARTHEréalisé par / directeb byPAUL OTCHAKOVSKY-LAURENSPREMIER FILM / PREMIÈRE MONDIALEFIRST FILM / WORLD PREMIERECIFRANCE<strong>2007</strong>CouleurDV95’Version originaleFrançaisSous titreAnglais, espagnol,arabeImageEmmeline LandonMusiqueB<strong>en</strong>oît DelbecqMontagePaul Otchakovsky-Laur<strong>en</strong>sPro<strong>du</strong>ctionL’ars<strong>en</strong>alPaul Otchakovsky-Laur<strong>en</strong>s est arrivé à Sablé après la mort <strong>de</strong> son père<strong>en</strong> 1946. Il avait un an. Sa mère tombant gravem<strong>en</strong>t mala<strong>de</strong>, il a étéadopté par une vieille cousine qui l’y a élevé jusqu’<strong>en</strong> 1962. Il s’estpassé, <strong>du</strong>rant sa vie là-bas, <strong>de</strong>s événem<strong>en</strong>ts qui l’ont déterminée pour<strong>de</strong> longues années, <strong>de</strong>s choses graves sur lesquelles le sil<strong>en</strong>ce esttombé et qui sont <strong>de</strong>v<strong>en</strong>ues ce que l’on appelle improprem<strong>en</strong>t unsecret <strong>de</strong> famille. C’est là aussi qu’il a découvert par hasard sesorigines juives. Il s’est agi pour lui <strong>de</strong> r<strong>en</strong>dre compte <strong>de</strong> l’espace <strong>de</strong>ces sil<strong>en</strong>ces. Il a voulu r<strong>en</strong>dre ces lieux, ces temps, une vie d’<strong>en</strong>fantpuis d’adolesc<strong>en</strong>t dans une petite ville <strong>de</strong> province immobile, refermée,épieuse.Se libérer <strong>du</strong> poids d’un secret suppose, Freud nous l’aura appris, letravail <strong>de</strong> sa mise <strong>en</strong> lumière. Mais lorsque tel secret se confond avecla forme d’une ville, c’est alors cette ville qui <strong>de</strong>vi<strong>en</strong>t l’obstacle àéclairer, à franchir, à décrire, à exhumer pour la démantelerpatiemm<strong>en</strong>t. Enquête sur le <strong>de</strong>v<strong>en</strong>ir d’une communauté <strong>de</strong> province,ses paysages, ses rues et ses habitants, recherches d’archivesfamiliales et retour sur le récit <strong>de</strong> souv<strong>en</strong>irs personnels, c’est une telletresse qu’a choisi <strong>de</strong> nouer le film. Refusant <strong>de</strong> privilégier aucun <strong>de</strong>ces trois fils, c’est autant <strong>du</strong> coup une l<strong>en</strong>te et pudique confessionque le portrait d’une certaine France qui est <strong>en</strong>trepris ici. (JPR)Paul Otchakovsky-Laur<strong>en</strong>s was only a year old wh<strong>en</strong> he arrived in Sablé-sur-Sarthefollowing his father’s <strong>de</strong>ath in 1946. Wh<strong>en</strong> his mother fell seriously ill, he wasadopted by an aged cousin who brought him up until 1962. During his life there,many ev<strong>en</strong>ts took place which shaped him, serious ev<strong>en</strong>ts which were not spok<strong>en</strong>about and which became what we refer to clumsily as family secrets. It was there,too, that he stumbled across his Jewish origins. What he aimed to do was torecreate the magnitu<strong>de</strong> of those sil<strong>en</strong>ces. He wanted to bring those spaces andthose times to life, the life of a child and th<strong>en</strong> an adolesc<strong>en</strong>t in a stagnant, inwardlookinglittle provincial town with its twitching curtains.Ridding oneself of a weighty secret, as Freud would have us believe, presupposesthat it be brought out into the op<strong>en</strong>. Yet, wh<strong>en</strong> such a secret is caught up in theshape of a town, it is th<strong>en</strong> the town that becomes the stumbling block which needsto be put un<strong>de</strong>r the spotlight. It needs to be overcome, <strong>de</strong>scribed and unearthedso that it can be pati<strong>en</strong>tly dismantled. An examination of the evolution of thisprovincial community, its landscapes, streets and inhabitants, research into familyarchives and a revisiting of accounts of personal memories is the plait which thefilm tries to weave. While refusing to give pri<strong>de</strong> of place to any one of these threestrands at the exp<strong>en</strong>se of the others, this film brings us both a g<strong>en</strong>tly-paced andmo<strong>de</strong>st confession and a portrait of a particular kind of France.073

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