With « a country in flames », Mona Convert fighs all joy – Liberation

The best is always to get into darkness and know nothing, ideal. Black is first of all, before the amniotic comfort of the cinema room, the voluntary ignorance of what we are about to see. « I don’t want to know anything, » wisdom of the spectator, first critical command. Show film on the show, but works fundamentally realistic, A country in flames is the kind of documentary that it is better to discover blind.

If we continue to read anyway, its principle consists in the recording of the ritual of a fireworks, an annual votive ceremony in a forest of the Landes, which brings back as much to the bewitching of childhood as to the origins of cinema, to primitive and to fairground art, and an approach to experimental cinema. First feature by Mona Convert, filmmaker from Fine Arts, it is a magnificent black, anthropological and witch work, whose darkness makes possible, desirable, the flambé progressive. The film-flame-even if in digital format-is fraying a way on the scale of nature revealed among the primordial shadows, dense smoke and luminous sheaves, sparks on the scale of a tree trunk and the world. We take risks to play with fire, it is better to know our job.

The film proceeds in stages, crackling in the trees to the final bouquet, by enlarged concentric circles. Has barely over an hour to have a fleeting view, NYCTALOPE, from where you are: « L