Screening of the film: Cold Water

The extraordinary portrait of a generation in the years immediately following May 1968 in France - a period that marked momentous change in society, for better or worse – is sketched by Assayas with complicity, partly due to the film’s strongly autobiographical nature. The work is intended to be a faithful reconstruction of this tumultuous time, while avoiding any kind of nostalgia. The youth counter culture, revolution, Maoism and its critics, trips to London, parties, love affairs, art: these are the worlds where Gilles - clearly the director’s alter ego - divides his time, fielding a disillusioned scepticism while searching for his path. Torn between political engagement and art and, equally, between the “psychedelic” Laure and the militant Christine, a “political” trip to Italy will help Gilles choose to move forward with his individual revolution, in art and in cinema. Introduced by Marco Aime