Sur la voie
Pierre Creton
2013 - 85 min - Vidéo HD - Noir & Blanc - France

“Pierre, a young man in Normandy, decides to leave his class and his parents’ farm to see the Parisian inner city neighbourhoods for himself. Meanwhile, in Seine-St-Denis, another young man named Yassine decides to leave the city because he wishes to walk to the sea via the countryside. One follows the railway tracks, the other follows the meanders of the Seine to its mouth. Many circumstances might have led to them running into each other, given that the railroad crosses the river six times, but they actually meet during a detour through Claude Monet’s garden.”
This is how Pierre Creton describes his latest project, abandoning the attentive observation of unique places, for which he is usually known, in order to undertake the adventure of a road movie, combining countryside and inner city, moments of solitude and moments of conversation. But on this road, we advance at the slow pace walking, which allows time for gazing and observing plants and the beings encountered, crossing a discrete and unmentioned France, in order to ultimately evoke the ghost of the master of the water lilies of Giverny in a hesitant duo. (Jean-Pierre Rehm, FIDMarseille 2013)