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THICKER THAN PAINT THINNERBabak AfrassiabiCIpremière mondialePAYS-BAS<strong>2011</strong>CouleurHDV29’Version originaleFarsiSous-titresAnglaisImageClair PijmansSon et montageBabak AfrassiabiAvecAyat NajafiFilmographieSATELLITE, AS LONGAS IT IS AIMINGAT THE SKY, 2010OF BLANCKAND MAKE UP, 2009Un dénommé Hossein, ancien drogué à la personnalité perturbée, a prispart à l’incendie d’un cinéma où près <strong>de</strong> 400 personnes ont péri. C’étaiten Iran en 1979, quelques mois avant la Révolution, et ce geste étaitune tentative délirante <strong>de</strong> participer aux soulèvements en cours. Unefois le nouveau régime en place, Hossein plai<strong>de</strong> coupable et <strong>de</strong>man<strong>de</strong>à être jugé et puni, mais il ne rencontre qu’indifférence, et l’affaire estclassée sans suite. Par ailleurs, le film qui passait sur l’écran <strong>du</strong> cinémaau moment <strong>de</strong> sa mise à feu mettait en scène la ré<strong>de</strong>mption d’un personnage,Seyyed, ancien drogué lui aussi, qui <strong>de</strong>vient révolutionnaire etmeurt par balles dans un affrontement avec la police, rattrapant ainsi sesfautes passées. Dans une reconstitution très sobre, dans le huis closd’une pièce où Hossein se confronte aux images <strong>de</strong> Seyyed sur unetélévision, Afrassiabi Babak reprend les confessions <strong>du</strong> pyromane ettente <strong>de</strong> renouer les fils entre ces <strong>de</strong>ux personnages, l’un réel, l’autrefictif, l’un per<strong>du</strong>, l’autre racheté, pour tenter <strong>de</strong> faire le portrait inhabituel<strong>de</strong> ce moment <strong>de</strong> l’Histoire où chacun peut se sentir invité à y entrer. Nes’épargnant aucune <strong>de</strong>s complexités qu’un tel chassé-croisé affolé nemanque <strong>de</strong> pro<strong>du</strong>ire, Babak propose en une <strong>du</strong>rée ramassée un filmcompact, sans le diluant auquel le titre fait en effet allusion. (JPR)Hossein, a former drug addict with a personality disor<strong>de</strong>r, took part in an arsonattack on a cinema in which almost 400 people died. This took place in Iran in 1979,a few months before the Revolution, and was a <strong>de</strong>lirious attempt to participate inthe uprising that was already un<strong>de</strong>rway. Once the new regime was in place, Hosseinplea<strong>de</strong>d guilty and asked to be judged and punished, but he was met only withindifference, and the case was closed without any follow-up. What is more, the filmbeing projected in the cinema when it was set on fire <strong>de</strong>alt with the re<strong>de</strong>mption ofa character called Seyyed, himself a former drug addict, who becomes arevolutionary and is shot <strong>de</strong>ad <strong>du</strong>ring a confrontation with police, thus makingamends for his past faults. In a very sober reconstruction, in the confinement of aroom where Hossein is faced with images of Seyyed on television, Afrassiabi Babakuses the actual confessions of the pyromaniac and attempts to recreate the linksbetween the two characters (one is real, the other fictional, one is lost, the otherre<strong>de</strong>emed) in or<strong>de</strong>r to try to paint an unusual portrait of this moment in History whichevery one of us is invited to enter. Sparing none of the complexities that such acrazed cross-over inevitably pro<strong>du</strong>ces, Babak presents a compact film of contracted<strong>du</strong>ration, without the thinner referred to in the title. (JPR)064

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