THE OPINION OF THE “WORLD” – MUST SEE
If all points of view are equal in rights, then shouldn’t it be impossible to embrace all of Paris from one corner of the sidewalk. In any case, this is proven by Alexandra Pianelli, a graduate of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, but above all the daughter and granddaughter of newsstands, with a first feature film shot over ten years from the small window of one of these counters in newspapers, posted on Place Victor-Hugo, in the XVIe district of Paris.
The regulars of the district, simple passers-by, the destitute, the asylum seekers, pass through the stall to buy the press, to pick up a delivery, to find its way or quite simply to cut a bib. The minimalism of the form (everything is filmed on the cell phone), non-intrusive, guarantees proximity with the people filmed, witness to a long-term relationship.
Crafts and models serve to contextualize the inexorable economic weakening of kiosks: crisis of the paper press and its distributors, rampant digitization, but also resignation of the public authorities, the City of Paris having started by ceding the management of these spaces to the group of JCDecaux advertising. On arrival, the film moves by drawing from the inside the portrait of a small piece of France doomed to disappear, not only with the printed paper, but with these last crossroads of cities where something like a link was still being created. social.
French documentary by Alexandra Pianelli (1 h 18).