"Le C.O.D et le coquelicot" suivi de "Bien veiller"
As part of Documentary Film Month.
*LE C.O.D ET LE COQUELICOT* by Cécile Rousset and Jeanne Paturle, 2013
At a troubled elementary school, where teaching staff come and go year after year, five young, inexperienced teachers have taken a chance on staying. The filmmakers accompany interviews with the teachers using drawings, paintings, and cut-out paper, sometimes striving to stay true to the themes discussed and other times letting their visual imagination run wild.
Ages 12 and up - Runtime: 24 min.
BIEN VEILLER by Perrine Decker, 2019
: An intimate and discreet portrait of the pediatric intensive care unit at Necker Hospital in Paris. An entire team works together to care for sick children: doctors, nurses, and volunteers. The children’s faces do not appear; they remain off-screen. The choice to keep them out of the frame makes their presence all the more acute and palpable. They are definitely there, and so are the caregivers, watching over them.
Press review, *Le C.O.D. et le coquelicot*: “Through this original documentary style, this film shows us that it is possible to transform reality—to deconstruct and reconstruct it—to make it all the more meaningful.”
Blog “ABCs of Films We Call Documentaries,” Loreena Paulet
With Federico Rossin, film historian
Ages 12 and up—Running time: 29 min.
