L'Affaire Valerie"Dir. Francois Caillat, 2004

Wed, Apr 5
7pm
$6 General, $3 AFSF Members

"L'affaire Val=E9rie" Dir. Fran=E7ois Caillat, 2004, 75'

Award winning French documentary (FID-Marseille 2004)

A film-maker travels through mountain villages and along the shores =

of Alpine lakes to investigate the disappearance of Val=E9rie 20 years =

earlier.
She allegedly murdered a Canadian tourist before disappearing without =

a trace. At least that is how the narrator, who was passing through =

the region at the time, remembers the story. Over the course of the =

interviews, the elusive Val=E9rie seems to disappear a second time, =

literally engulfed by the Alpine landscape, magnificently captured on =

film by Fran=E7ois Caillat. A haunting, imposing landscape, where =

chasms and precipices become metaphors, characters in a work of =

fiction that the camera turns into a documentary. A film in the form =

of an essay in which the director takes his work on memory to its =

highest degree of abstraction.

In French, with English subtitles.

Venue:

Alliance Francaise de San Francisco
1345 Bush street (bet. Polk and Larkin)
San Francisco
415 775 77 55
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