La Bagne

Maud Martin

France / 2012 / Documentary / 57’0”N1400463

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SYNOPSIS

Bernardo Montet is preparing his new play, "Des Hommes" based on Genet's "The Penal Colony". For two months I film the dancers at work on this creation and its almost necessary brutality. The film asks what dancing means for such an intense and ephemeral community.

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