Claude Monet à Giverny
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About - Claude Monet à Giverny
For forty-three years, from 1883 until his death in 1926, Claude Monet lived in Giverny. Exactly half of his life.
By settling into his house in Normandy, a new life began for the painter. There he developed a new pictorial adventure: the practice of the series, developed in particular through the Haystacks and the Cathedrals, and finally the Water Lilies, which occupied the artist for some twenty-five years.
In Giverny, Monet also founded a new family. Widowed, with two children, he settled there with Alice Hoschedé, six children, whom he married in 1892. Away from the rumours of the capital, Claude Monet found his bearings and took painting to the height of a prospective adventure that was to illuminate the 20th century.
Narrated by the voice of Alice, the film relates what life was like in this household organized around the activities of the artist and his garden... whose fame has continued to grow over time.
Jean Breschand
Jean Breschand developed a dual activity of directing and writing in the field of creative documentaries, before devoting himself to fiction. He has directed about ten films, including "Métropolitaines" (1995), "Le Retour du monde" (on Theo Angelopoulos, 2003), "L’Aménagement du territoire" (Cinéma du Réel, 2006). He received the Advance on Receipts for "La Papesse Jeanne", Gérard Frot-Coutaz prize at the Entrevues de Belfort festival in 2016.
As a screenwriter, he notably wrote "Parce que j’étais peintre" by Christophe Cognet on painters in concentration camps (2014, Grand Prix des Escales documentaires, La Rochelle), "Claude Monet à Giverny" by Philippe Piguet, "Kamen" by Florence Lazar (2014, Louis Marcorelles prize, Cinéma du Réel), "Pencil of Nature" (Érik Bullot, 2008).
He takes part in various screenwriting residencies, at the antipodes of storytelling theories. He is one of the co-founders of the Centre des Ecritures Cinématographiques at the Moulin d’Andé in 1998. He was editor of Vertigo, a review of the history and aesthetics of cinema, and published "Le documentaire, l’autre face du cinéma" in Cahiers du cinéma. He teaches cinema in the Master Image et Société at the University of Évry and is the current president of the GREC.
Philippe Piguet
A critic and art historian, teacher and exhibition curator, Philippe Piguet is also the author of several documentary films, including "Qui commande quoi" directed by Jean-Paul Fargier and "Marchand d’art".
He also directed the documentary "Claude Monet à Giverny, la Maison d’Alice" in 2010 for the Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais.
Génerique - Claude Monet à Giverny
Avec
Marie-Christine Barrault, dans le rôle d'Alice
| Grégory Rodriguez |
image |
|---|---|
| Eric Taryné |
son |
| Bénédicte Mallet |
montage |
| Kryshna Lévy |
musique |
Une coproduction Bix Films, France Télévisions, la Réunion des Musées Nationaux
avec la participation du Musée d'Orsay et de la Fondation Claude Monet
avec le soutien du CNC, de la Procirep/Angoa, de la Région Alsace et de la Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg
