Hai cercato: Repérages
Location Hunting / 1977
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.
Van Gogh à Paris, repérages / 1988
"What is a location search ? Maybe that's it : hanging in a pub... let their thoughts flow freely." (André S. Labarthe) The camera reinvests the places that Van Gogh covered in Montmartre, but also among other things the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. In this place which "looks like an airport" Labarthe imagine an incredible meeting between Vincent Van Gogh and Antonin Artaud. The Artaud's texts are read by Alain Cluny