French director known for his film about the 1950 Marseille dock strike
In 1990, a large, expectant audience filled the Cinémathèque Française in Paris for the premiere of a film that had been made 35 years previously. The film was Le Rendezvous des Quais (Meeting On the Docks), directed by Paul Carpita, who has died aged 86. Why did it take so long for this masterly film to be shown to the public?
Interweaving fact and fiction, Le Rendezvous des Quais told a love story between a young docker and a factory girl, against the background of the 50-day great dockers' strike of 1950, when the employees of the port of Marseille stopped work to protest against the war in Indochina, and when the dockers' passive demonstrations were brutally put down by the riot police (Crs). The dockers refused to unload the coffins of returning dead French soldiers killed in Dien Bien Phu "as if...
In 1990, a large, expectant audience filled the Cinémathèque Française in Paris for the premiere of a film that had been made 35 years previously. The film was Le Rendezvous des Quais (Meeting On the Docks), directed by Paul Carpita, who has died aged 86. Why did it take so long for this masterly film to be shown to the public?
Interweaving fact and fiction, Le Rendezvous des Quais told a love story between a young docker and a factory girl, against the background of the 50-day great dockers' strike of 1950, when the employees of the port of Marseille stopped work to protest against the war in Indochina, and when the dockers' passive demonstrations were brutally put down by the riot police (Crs). The dockers refused to unload the coffins of returning dead French soldiers killed in Dien Bien Phu "as if...
- 12/8/2009
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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