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FLEURETTE
A documentary by Sérgio Tréfaut, 2002 - 80’
Photography: João Ribeiro
Sound: Pedro Figueiredo,
Editing: Pedro Duarte, Jorge Divo, Andreia Bertini, Pedro Ribeiro
Producers: Maria João Mayer, François d’Artemare – Filmes do
Tejo
Grand Prix International Competition - Les Ecrans Documentaires
Best Editing – Doc Lisboa
Best Iberian Film – Cáceres (Spain)
Joris Ivens Competition at IDFA – Amsterdam
Documentary Fortnight – MOMA (Museum of Modern Art – New York)
Top of the Docs - Stockholm
It’s All True (international competition) – Brazil
Silverdocs (World View Competition) – Washington
Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire – Montreal
Infinity Festival (Official Selection) – Alba, Italy
Synopsis
Do we really know those who are closest to us? Do we want to
know them? And they? Do they really want us to know them?
Or not?
A son tries to understand the troubled past of his mother,
Fleurette, 79 years old. Notwithstanding her resistance to
his questions, little by little, throughout the film she reveals
secret or voluntarily forgotten events; almost another life
that emerges as a revelation.
«Fleurette, by Sérgio Tréfaut, is a film that is not easily
categorized: it takes the form of an autobiographical documentary
in which the director questions his parents and his brother
in a complex strategy of self-discovery, but it ends up by
passing the frontiers of fiction and offering us a powerful
portrait of a family story. Because it covers a large part
of the 20th century, from the France of the 1940s, with fragments
of a story of love and hatred, of collaboration and neutrality,
to the Brazilian dictatorship and the Portugal of the revolution
of April 1974, it is also a tender and touching story about
the contradictions of the family structure set against the
wider background of recent history.»
Mário Jorge Torres, April 2002 |
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