Walk The Walk

A family disintegrates and goes its separate ways. The father (Jacques Martial) is an athlete with ankle problems, the mother (Laure Duthilleul) a biologist, their teenage daughter an avid singer (Betsabée Haas). The film takes turns following each of them. The daughter’s journey takes her from Marseille via Strasbourg to Zurich’s open drug scene and finally to Berlin. The father is drawn to Odessa, while the mother remains behind her microscope in southern France. Film scholar Margrit Tröhler: “The three stories are interwoven like in a fugue, with each absorbing the verve of the other and passing it on to the next. Although the characters’ travel movements are centrifugal, the images come together to form a scintillating whole akin to a mosaic thanks to the consistent, palpable presence of the filmmaker as a companion and an interlocutor: he is the fourth character.” Kramer’s films always broke down boundaries between documentary and fiction; in this film, he achieves a hybrid completely novel at the time. (Volker Pantenburg)

On the 21st of October in the presence of Richard Copans.

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Robert Kramer (selection): IN THE COUNTRY (1967), THE EDGE (1968), ICE (1969), MILESTONES (1975), SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN PORTUGAL (1977), GUNS (1980), NOTRE NAZI (1984), DOC'S KINGDOM (1987), X-COUNTRY. BEING A WEDDING BETWEEN US AND THE FARABUNDO MARTÍ LIBERATION FRONT IN PRESIDENT MONROE’S OLD HOUSE (1987/2022), ROUTE ONE/USA (1989), VIDÉOLETTRES ROBERT KRAMER / STEPHEN DWOSKIN (1991), WALK THE WALK (1996), CITÉS DE LA PLAINE (2000)