Jacques Ertaud

Bir İdam Mahkumu Kaçtı, sinemada minimalizmin tadına varmak isteyenler için en iyi başlangıç noktası. Filmin büyük bölümü, Fontaine'i (François Leterrier) hücresinde yalnız başına, kendisi gibi tutsak olanlarla iletişim kurarken ve özgürlüğüne doğru adım adım ilerlerken gösterir. Tüm Bresson filmleri gibi bu film de, Bresson'un uzun çalışmalardan sonra geliştirdiği, "sinematograf" üzerine kuramlarını ortaya koyar: Dramatiklikten tamamen uzak bir oyunculuk sergileyen amatör oyuncular; görüntü dışı seslere ve onların aktardığı bilgiye olağanüstü bir vurgu; son ve görkemli ana kadar müziğin kullanılmaması. Fransız sinemasının diğer muhteşem hapishane filmleri olan Jaques Becker'in Le trou (Delik, 1960) ve Jean Genet'nin Un chant d'amour (Aşk Şarkısı, 1950) filmleri gibi, Bir İdam Mahkumu Kaçtı da insan ruhunun çektiği acıların ve kurtuluşa yönelten dürtülerin olağanüstü güçlü bir alegorisini sunar..

Biography of ski instructor, mountain guide, mountaineer and filmmaker-lecturer Lionel Terray. Film-portrait of an emblematic figure of French mountaineering in the 1950s and 1960s, reconstructing the life, the great races and the expeditions of the "conqueror" of the most difficult walls and summits of Europe, the Himalayas, the Andes and North America. Marcel Ichac produced in 1966, the day after the Gerbier accident, this illustrated tribute by bringing together personal archive documents, unpublished animated sequences or extracts from expedition images as well as comments taken from the autobiographical texts of Lionel Terray " The Conquerors of the Useless" and "Battle for Jannu". This film, presented at the Cannes Film Festival, has won numerous awards at specialized film festivals, including the Trente Festival and the Banff Festival.

Pierre Mazeau has managed to unite three of his passions which seem to have nothing in common, at a very high level: mountaineering, jurisprudence and policy. The Everest mountaineer, rescued from the Freney Pillar, the passionate jurist, the former sports minister, privy counsellor, and president of the French Constitutional Court is a charismatic personality. This sensitive film portrait follows a line, which Pierre Mazeaud himself has quoted: “Alpinism belongs to those who provide themselves with means to reach their goals, to those who are fully committed to a goal, to those, who know the value of solidarity of men, and to those who are aware that true human existence can only be fulfilled by proceeding with a team of roped-partners.”

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker