Vrai faux passeport (2006) - full transcript
DOCUMENTARY FICTION
ON THE OCCASION
TO CARRY OUT A JUDGEMENT
ON HOW TO MAKE FILMS
Félix…
And then St. Augustine:
“The truth is so beloved
that even the liars wish what they say to be true.”
GODS
HISTORY
Enter now Jean Moulin with your terrible procession
With all those who, like you died in cellars without breaking
or even perhaps more atrocious still, those who did break
It was a time when, out in the countryside, we listened tensely to the barking of dogs in the depths of the night,
a time when multi-colored parachutes, laden with weapons and cigarettes
fell from the sky by the light of flares burning in forest clearings or on windswept plateaus,
a time of cellars, and the desperate cries of torture victims, their voices like those of children…
The great battle in the darkness had begun
THE RESPONSE OF DARKNESS
Enter now, Jean Moulin with your terrible procession
with all those who, like you, died in cellars without breaking
or even more atrocious still, those who did break
IN ALGERIA
YOU TOOK PART
IN TORTURE
SESSIONS, TODAY
WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THAT?
I was conviced that if I didn't follow suit…
IN ALGERIA
YOU TOOK PART
IN TORTURE
SESSIONS, TODAY
WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THAT?
…I would be condamned, I wouldn't escape unhurt
IN ALGERIA
YOU TOOK PART
IN TORTURE
SESSIONS, TODAY
WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THAT?
I wonder if I resisted…
You have resisted since you are still here
Resisted?
FOR ME
TO FORGET
THAT I TORTURED
IS IMPOSSIBLE
Today when you think about it do you think you could’ve done something else?
Or the situation was so restricted that you felt a prisoner of this situation?
It’s not even “prisoner,” it’s…
You are truly in a situation, completely unable to…
ONLY THE SQUARE
GIVES IMAGES
OF THINGS
WHICH UNTIL NOW
HAVE BEEN BANISHED
FROM THE SCREEN
DESTRUCTION
GIVEN FREE REIGN
EVERYWHERE
BUT WHAT DO THE
5 SERPENTS MEAN?
THEY SHOW THE
4 ELEMENTS
IN THE MIDST OF
WHICH DESTINY
IS GIVEN FREE REIGN
ONE MAN ALONE
HAS PREPARED THEM
AND THIS MAN
IS A TORTURED MAN
In the ruins of Karame, a little girl from Fatah recites a poem by Mahmoud Darwich, “I shall resist”
Speak first of the setting
and the actor in the setting, that is, the theatre
This theatre, where does it come from?
It comes from 1789, from the French Revolution
and from the pleasure the members of the ’89 convention took in spectacular gestures, and in reciting their demands publically
This little girl, here, is acting for the Palestinian Revolution, of course
She’s innocent, but maybe this form of theatre is less so
CHILDHOOD
This is how it must be
I have to make life unbearable
I have to make the game despise me so it will spew me forth
so it will spit in my face!
I must become hideous!
She’ll kill me! She’s gone insane!
Help!
No, I haven’t gone insane. You’re wrong.
You’re the one who’s insane
I must hold out to the end
And the end’s a long way off and I must live it all. It won’t be easy!
Paul, look at me…
Can you hear me?
who will help this world, so stuck and depressed
This world which must absolutely change
And which eventually will change
Pretty children of Aubervilliers
Pretty children of proletarians
Pretty children of poverty
Pretty children all over the world
POLITICS
But rite was rite, and symbol was symbol
TERROR
It was Olga, I'm sure of it
Olga?
You met her one night, she wanted to give you a DVD
It's her
How do you know?
She gave the audience five minutes to get out.
She said if there was one Israeli who’d die with her for peace, not for war, she’d be happy
Then what?
Everybody left, leaving her alone
She had a big red shoulder bag
The marksmen arrived and killed her before she could open her bag
It contained only books
BEAUTY
Children!
Let’s do a race!
Who can eat the apple the fastest
One, two, three!
Hurry! You’re a retard
Massoumeh, hurry up!
I eat it slowly, like this, I appreciate it better
You’re gonna lose. If you eat slowly, you will lose
Lord, if you will, make me clean
It is my will, be made clean
Tell no man, rather go and show yourself to the priest
and offer them the gift which Moses ordained
It must be a testimony to them
…the word that can make the dead come to life
In the name of Jesus Christ,
I bid thee...
Arise!
Fear not! Stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord!
It’s the Wrath of God!
POVERTY
Her back was the most beautiful in the world
When Yazundokta's estate, all her property, was taken away, and she needed food,
she would allow them to kiss her back for money
Only kissing and only her back
His mother and father are also blind
They told their son that everybody is blind
and that no one can see themselves
But the blind boy made his own discovery
He figured out that all people are women
Every person is a woman, and all voices are the voices of women
That’s what he thinks
Women give birth to children who are also women
And his fate was to be a man
That’s why he is a cripple
And his father a cripple because born a man
He believes that the only other man is his father
DEFEAT
Have you seen Edmund?
Something lit up her face
Oh, Jeanne, to reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take
After having spent a long time in Sarajevo
I perfectly knew how it happened
When a shell felt and injured people, relief came the next minute
And I shot two films in one minute
The wounded have been taken away at once
…and without any guilt
And then I heard my father breathing beside me
And when I tried to turn round to see him, I understood I was really injured
His belly was…
He had a tear on his belly that opened
And at this moment I saw a photographer taking pictures
Did you remember having seen him?
Yes, I perfectly remember Luc
At that time I didn't know he was the French photographer Luc Delahaye
I only remember that I wondered why he stood there,
why he shot pictures, whe he didn't help me
Because I couldn't get up
I understood I had injuries everywhere
I couldn't get on my feet nor turn back
I really wanted to turn back because I called my father and he didn't answer
But I heard him breathing
And I wondered what he was doing, why he didn't help me
I don't think that I talked to him
But on one of the photos he took, I think I looked straight in his eyes
or maybe straight in his lense
MATTER
…by studying the positions and speed of repatriated stars,
Ort was able to calculate the mass of our galaxy
To his surprise he discovered visible mass represents only 50% of the mass needed to deploy gravity
Where did the other half of the universe pass?
IN I THINK THEREFORE I AM
THE I
OF I AM
IS NOT THE SAME AS
THE I
OF I THINK
THE SAME
THE OTHER
CERTAINTY
THE BLIND
COUNTRY
FILTH
The Vietcong went back up unconscious after having been asphyxiated by a US grenade
The Americans force revive the combatant in order to question her
What do they derive?
Insults, communist songs or cries of pain…
SWEETNESS
FATALITY
VICTORY
DEATH
And when I looked at closely, I saw it wasn't the same
Actually, there someone shot him, and there he shot the picture
As the two photos are quite identical, I said to my friend that it was what I wanted to keep from him
I understood instantly that he left me a picture of what death was
I think it's a picture of death
And I understood that death was an empty place in a landscape
Nothing else, just an empty place…
PASSPORT
TO
THE REAL
FALSE
NATO participates to an air-sea exercise
8,000 navies and 40 battleship are training between the coast of Var, Corsica and Sardinia
in order to permit to the French navy to join the new rapid intervention force of the Atlantic Alliance
TRUE
The cannon are ours!
lt's ours. We bought it!
Disperse!
First warning!
We will use force!
Disperse!
Second and last warning.
Disperse!
Well, hello,
live from the 11 th District,
your reporter for National Television Versailles,
to brief you on the incredible events in Paris this morning
lndeed, several movements of…
l'm from Versailles TV and we'd like to know what's happening…
Tell jackass Thiers to come back to the 11th and we'll see!
You can see the strange atmosphere here in Paris
You liar, back to Versailles!
lt's very difficult to get answers
Can you tell us what you think of this?
The situation is quite disconcerting…
And who are you?
My name is Wickham Hoffman, l'm assistant to US Ambassador, Mr. Washburne
And what does the US think of the events in Paris?
Personally, l find the situation very serious, with this insurrectionary crowd in the streets
l'm quite worried
For the property owners in Paris, it's a very worrying situation
Thank you
What do you think of the events unfolding in Paris?
l'm extremely anxious and very worried
My husband is a doctor
What will happen to us?
l'm really very worried
Do you think this riot could worsen?
Might it lead to civil war?
I'm afraid so
And you, Madame?
I'm shattered!
War was over, we had peace,
and now this!
l can't understand it
l really can't
Will you stay here?
l must, l have workers,
l must protect my labour
DISCOURSE
I saw my first Italian films on this little screen
with my family around, pretty much in a room like this
I'm American, so when I decided to try to make films, I naturally thought my place was gonna be in Hollywood
I mean if you are a filmmaker in America, that's where they make the movies
But then the more films I made, the more I realized what an indelible mark Italian cinema had left on me
So as a filmmaker I feel stuck, I never really feel as a Hollywood director
and obviously I'm an Italian director either
So I guess I've to find my own somewhere in between in order to feel comfortable
Fellini said that Rossellini seemed to know exactly what he wanted when he was shooting this episode
He was looking for a new way to tell a story on film with nothing artistically embellished
where everything seems to be simply enfolding as in life
For me this clarity of vision as an almost religious impact
As the French film critic André Bazin said, Rossellini was simply directing the facts
In the early 60s, there was a great debate
People took sides passionately
On one side there was La Dolce Vita, on the other side there was Antonioni's L'Avventura
Two completely unique that couldn't be more different
La Dolce Vita was a big sprawling circus
L'Avventura was mysterious, distant
THIS WAS
29 SUBPOENAS
TO
STAND TRIAL
COPYRIGHT
FOR
ALL
ON THE OCCASION
TO CARRY OUT A JUDGEMENT
ON HOW TO MAKE FILMS
Félix…
And then St. Augustine:
“The truth is so beloved
that even the liars wish what they say to be true.”
GODS
HISTORY
Enter now Jean Moulin with your terrible procession
With all those who, like you died in cellars without breaking
or even perhaps more atrocious still, those who did break
It was a time when, out in the countryside, we listened tensely to the barking of dogs in the depths of the night,
a time when multi-colored parachutes, laden with weapons and cigarettes
fell from the sky by the light of flares burning in forest clearings or on windswept plateaus,
a time of cellars, and the desperate cries of torture victims, their voices like those of children…
The great battle in the darkness had begun
THE RESPONSE OF DARKNESS
Enter now, Jean Moulin with your terrible procession
with all those who, like you, died in cellars without breaking
or even more atrocious still, those who did break
IN ALGERIA
YOU TOOK PART
IN TORTURE
SESSIONS, TODAY
WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THAT?
I was conviced that if I didn't follow suit…
IN ALGERIA
YOU TOOK PART
IN TORTURE
SESSIONS, TODAY
WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THAT?
…I would be condamned, I wouldn't escape unhurt
IN ALGERIA
YOU TOOK PART
IN TORTURE
SESSIONS, TODAY
WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF THAT?
I wonder if I resisted…
You have resisted since you are still here
Resisted?
FOR ME
TO FORGET
THAT I TORTURED
IS IMPOSSIBLE
Today when you think about it do you think you could’ve done something else?
Or the situation was so restricted that you felt a prisoner of this situation?
It’s not even “prisoner,” it’s…
You are truly in a situation, completely unable to…
ONLY THE SQUARE
GIVES IMAGES
OF THINGS
WHICH UNTIL NOW
HAVE BEEN BANISHED
FROM THE SCREEN
DESTRUCTION
GIVEN FREE REIGN
EVERYWHERE
BUT WHAT DO THE
5 SERPENTS MEAN?
THEY SHOW THE
4 ELEMENTS
IN THE MIDST OF
WHICH DESTINY
IS GIVEN FREE REIGN
ONE MAN ALONE
HAS PREPARED THEM
AND THIS MAN
IS A TORTURED MAN
In the ruins of Karame, a little girl from Fatah recites a poem by Mahmoud Darwich, “I shall resist”
Speak first of the setting
and the actor in the setting, that is, the theatre
This theatre, where does it come from?
It comes from 1789, from the French Revolution
and from the pleasure the members of the ’89 convention took in spectacular gestures, and in reciting their demands publically
This little girl, here, is acting for the Palestinian Revolution, of course
She’s innocent, but maybe this form of theatre is less so
CHILDHOOD
This is how it must be
I have to make life unbearable
I have to make the game despise me so it will spew me forth
so it will spit in my face!
I must become hideous!
She’ll kill me! She’s gone insane!
Help!
No, I haven’t gone insane. You’re wrong.
You’re the one who’s insane
I must hold out to the end
And the end’s a long way off and I must live it all. It won’t be easy!
Paul, look at me…
Can you hear me?
who will help this world, so stuck and depressed
This world which must absolutely change
And which eventually will change
Pretty children of Aubervilliers
Pretty children of proletarians
Pretty children of poverty
Pretty children all over the world
POLITICS
But rite was rite, and symbol was symbol
TERROR
It was Olga, I'm sure of it
Olga?
You met her one night, she wanted to give you a DVD
It's her
How do you know?
She gave the audience five minutes to get out.
She said if there was one Israeli who’d die with her for peace, not for war, she’d be happy
Then what?
Everybody left, leaving her alone
She had a big red shoulder bag
The marksmen arrived and killed her before she could open her bag
It contained only books
BEAUTY
Children!
Let’s do a race!
Who can eat the apple the fastest
One, two, three!
Hurry! You’re a retard
Massoumeh, hurry up!
I eat it slowly, like this, I appreciate it better
You’re gonna lose. If you eat slowly, you will lose
Lord, if you will, make me clean
It is my will, be made clean
Tell no man, rather go and show yourself to the priest
and offer them the gift which Moses ordained
It must be a testimony to them
…the word that can make the dead come to life
In the name of Jesus Christ,
I bid thee...
Arise!
Fear not! Stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord!
It’s the Wrath of God!
POVERTY
Her back was the most beautiful in the world
When Yazundokta's estate, all her property, was taken away, and she needed food,
she would allow them to kiss her back for money
Only kissing and only her back
His mother and father are also blind
They told their son that everybody is blind
and that no one can see themselves
But the blind boy made his own discovery
He figured out that all people are women
Every person is a woman, and all voices are the voices of women
That’s what he thinks
Women give birth to children who are also women
And his fate was to be a man
That’s why he is a cripple
And his father a cripple because born a man
He believes that the only other man is his father
DEFEAT
Have you seen Edmund?
Something lit up her face
Oh, Jeanne, to reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take
After having spent a long time in Sarajevo
I perfectly knew how it happened
When a shell felt and injured people, relief came the next minute
And I shot two films in one minute
The wounded have been taken away at once
…and without any guilt
And then I heard my father breathing beside me
And when I tried to turn round to see him, I understood I was really injured
His belly was…
He had a tear on his belly that opened
And at this moment I saw a photographer taking pictures
Did you remember having seen him?
Yes, I perfectly remember Luc
At that time I didn't know he was the French photographer Luc Delahaye
I only remember that I wondered why he stood there,
why he shot pictures, whe he didn't help me
Because I couldn't get up
I understood I had injuries everywhere
I couldn't get on my feet nor turn back
I really wanted to turn back because I called my father and he didn't answer
But I heard him breathing
And I wondered what he was doing, why he didn't help me
I don't think that I talked to him
But on one of the photos he took, I think I looked straight in his eyes
or maybe straight in his lense
MATTER
…by studying the positions and speed of repatriated stars,
Ort was able to calculate the mass of our galaxy
To his surprise he discovered visible mass represents only 50% of the mass needed to deploy gravity
Where did the other half of the universe pass?
IN I THINK THEREFORE I AM
THE I
OF I AM
IS NOT THE SAME AS
THE I
OF I THINK
THE SAME
THE OTHER
CERTAINTY
THE BLIND
COUNTRY
FILTH
The Vietcong went back up unconscious after having been asphyxiated by a US grenade
The Americans force revive the combatant in order to question her
What do they derive?
Insults, communist songs or cries of pain…
SWEETNESS
FATALITY
VICTORY
DEATH
And when I looked at closely, I saw it wasn't the same
Actually, there someone shot him, and there he shot the picture
As the two photos are quite identical, I said to my friend that it was what I wanted to keep from him
I understood instantly that he left me a picture of what death was
I think it's a picture of death
And I understood that death was an empty place in a landscape
Nothing else, just an empty place…
PASSPORT
TO
THE REAL
FALSE
NATO participates to an air-sea exercise
8,000 navies and 40 battleship are training between the coast of Var, Corsica and Sardinia
in order to permit to the French navy to join the new rapid intervention force of the Atlantic Alliance
TRUE
The cannon are ours!
lt's ours. We bought it!
Disperse!
First warning!
We will use force!
Disperse!
Second and last warning.
Disperse!
Well, hello,
live from the 11 th District,
your reporter for National Television Versailles,
to brief you on the incredible events in Paris this morning
lndeed, several movements of…
l'm from Versailles TV and we'd like to know what's happening…
Tell jackass Thiers to come back to the 11th and we'll see!
You can see the strange atmosphere here in Paris
You liar, back to Versailles!
lt's very difficult to get answers
Can you tell us what you think of this?
The situation is quite disconcerting…
And who are you?
My name is Wickham Hoffman, l'm assistant to US Ambassador, Mr. Washburne
And what does the US think of the events in Paris?
Personally, l find the situation very serious, with this insurrectionary crowd in the streets
l'm quite worried
For the property owners in Paris, it's a very worrying situation
Thank you
What do you think of the events unfolding in Paris?
l'm extremely anxious and very worried
My husband is a doctor
What will happen to us?
l'm really very worried
Do you think this riot could worsen?
Might it lead to civil war?
I'm afraid so
And you, Madame?
I'm shattered!
War was over, we had peace,
and now this!
l can't understand it
l really can't
Will you stay here?
l must, l have workers,
l must protect my labour
DISCOURSE
I saw my first Italian films on this little screen
with my family around, pretty much in a room like this
I'm American, so when I decided to try to make films, I naturally thought my place was gonna be in Hollywood
I mean if you are a filmmaker in America, that's where they make the movies
But then the more films I made, the more I realized what an indelible mark Italian cinema had left on me
So as a filmmaker I feel stuck, I never really feel as a Hollywood director
and obviously I'm an Italian director either
So I guess I've to find my own somewhere in between in order to feel comfortable
Fellini said that Rossellini seemed to know exactly what he wanted when he was shooting this episode
He was looking for a new way to tell a story on film with nothing artistically embellished
where everything seems to be simply enfolding as in life
For me this clarity of vision as an almost religious impact
As the French film critic André Bazin said, Rossellini was simply directing the facts
In the early 60s, there was a great debate
People took sides passionately
On one side there was La Dolce Vita, on the other side there was Antonioni's L'Avventura
Two completely unique that couldn't be more different
La Dolce Vita was a big sprawling circus
L'Avventura was mysterious, distant
THIS WAS
29 SUBPOENAS
TO
STAND TRIAL
COPYRIGHT
FOR
ALL