Rey's first feature film begins as a stylish quasi-verité documentary about everyday life in a modest French ski resort. Gradually the film's attention shifts and discovers the dominant presence of the aluminum industry in the area steadily reshaping the region and threatening the resort itself. Shot on grainy 16mm treated with extreme photochemical techniques, the fable about industry and capitalism is an exploration of landscape as a hidden set of signifiers of power. - Harvard Film Archive
Nicolas Rey
Director, Writer
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Directed by John Ford70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
The Class of ‘9271%
180° South72%
Public Speaking70%
Daguerréotypes73%
McQueen74%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Above Majestic73%
Woman77%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Sherman's March67%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
12 jours71%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Le Bus : Les Bleus en grève69%
The Cheshire Murders65%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
