FILM 16MM COLOR
32 min.
2019
One night. On deserted ski slopes, the night ride of the groomers is about to begin. Antoine, 25 years old, joins his team. In the middle of the world, the hypnotic ballet of the machines that tirelessly shape the landscape starts. Suddenly the mountain growls. Stopped in the night, Antoine begins a journey in between where the myths of a mountain both feared and venerated are embodied.
MAREE is my third film about the mountain world. The story takes place in a small family ski resort in the Alps and takes us into the nightlife of the snow groomers. Starting from this community of men governed by the prophetic word of the elder, we follow ANTOINE, the youngest of them.
Having won the Pardino d’oro for L’immense retour in 2016, Manon Coubia chooses a ski resort as her setting, among a group of slope groomers. These are solid, gruff fellas whose camaraderie, rivalries and weariness she captures with a few, precise brush strokes. The groomers’ ballet has barely begun when Antoine lets the night, sleep and the might of the elements take him by surprise. Caught in between mountainous realism, documentary forms and the fantastic, Marée (Tide) is a contemporary, captivating Ramuzian odyssey.
Tizian Büchi Locarno Film Festival
Cast. Yoann Zimmer, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Production VOA films (BE) and EL Films (FR),
With the support of CNC, Région Rhône Alpes and FWB
Director Manon Coubia
Cinematographer Robin Fresson
Sound Vincent Nouaille
Aline Huber
Editing Théophile Gay-Mazas
Color Sylvain Lange
Sound editing and mixing Aline Huber
Music Igor Tropée
Locarno Film Festival 2019
Ghent Film Festival 2019
Clermont-Ferrand film festival 2019
Mountain Film Festival Autrans 2019
Trento Film Festival, Italie 2020
Vienna short film festival 2020
Festival Blackcanvas, Mexique
Radar Film Festival, Santiago Espagne
Etc.
Acquisition : ARTE
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