L'État de bonheur... permanent (1982)
"The State of happiness... permanent" presents itself as an extremely composed cine-photo-novel, based on the life of the filmmaker. It is, very exactly, images and sounds extracted from his personal story (curiously mixed with History itself). Not a plan that is not a piece of flesh, a piece of memory, a piece of life. Not a plan that does not fit into the raw experience of Maria Koleva. From this film, I want to highlight two very beautiful sequences: the one where she writes an essay with her cameraman on the back of a man sleeping in his bed, the one where she wonders, based on a photo where we see her as a little girl with her family during some party (in which his father seems to have played an important role), on the hat worn that day by his mother.
- Date of release
- 1982-06-09
- Runtime
- 3h 57m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Maria Koleva
Casting
- Maria Koleva — Self
- Marc Delsaert — Self
- Iskra Sekula — Self
- Guy Benedetti — Self
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