âUn Film Dramatiqueâ Review: Students Record the Paris Suburbs
This documentary gives middle school children a chance to show their experiences.
Mohammed Samassa, left, and Fatimata Sarr in the documentary âUn Film Dramatique.âCredit.Cinema Guild
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In the documentary âUn Film Dramatique,â the artist Ãric Baudelaire fulfills a commission to make a dedicated artwork for Dora Maar, a newly constructed middle school in the Saint-Denis suburb of Paris. For the project, Baudelaire filmed 21 students across four years, and he encouraged them to take up the camera themselves. The finished film demonstrates the liveliness and generosity that can come from civic-minded art.