Documentaries

LES SUCRIERS DE COLLEVILLE

SUGARBOYS OF COLLEVILLE, THE
Ariane Doublet
FRA 2003
90 min
V'04

Les Sucriers de Colleville is a heartfelt and quietly idealistic documentary movie about factory labour and the alienation of the worker. Towards the end of 2001, film-maker Ariane Doublet spent time with the harassed workers at a sugar refinery in Colleville in Normandy, where the beets are crushed and transformed into granulated white sugar. It is a hard, grim business: the factory is a place of deafening, smoky machinery, and the production schedule is tied to the vicissitudes of an annual harvest. And jobs are under threat. The refinery is threatened with closure something the workers find out only through rumour, glancing reports in the media and, finally, tense, inconclusive meetings with the management. Doublet establishes a marvellous rapport with her subjects, chatting with them as they change into their overalls in the locker room or share a civilised-looking ad hoc lunch in the control suite with its computer monitors. What emerges is the men's frustration and bafflement, both at what will happen to their jobs and at their own mixed feelings. (Peter Bradshaw)

Credits
  • Ariane Doublet
  • Ariane Doublet
  • Graciella Barrautt
  • Sophie Mandonnet
Quark Productions 22 rue du Petit Musc 75004 Paris, Frankreich T 1 44 54 39 50 quarkprod@wanadoo.fr

Quark Productions 22 rue du Petit Musc 75004 Paris, Frankreich T 1 44 54 39 50 quarkprod@wanadoo.fr

Video (Betacam SP)
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