L'État de bonheur... permanent (1982)
"The State of happiness... permanent" presents itself as an extremely composed cine-photo-novel, based on the life of the filmmaker. It is, very exactly, images and sounds extracted from his personal story (curiously mixed with History itself). Not a plan that is not a piece of flesh, a piece of memory, a piece of life. Not a plan that does not fit into the raw experience of Maria Koleva. From this film, I want to highlight two very beautiful sequences: the one where she writes an essay with her cameraman on the back of a man sleeping in his bed, the one where she wonders, based on a photo where we see her as a little girl with her family during some party (in which his father seems to have played an important role), on the hat worn that day by his mother.
Director: Maria Koleva
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Maria Koleva as Self |
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Marc Delsaert as Self |
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Iskra Sekula as Self |
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Guy Benedetti as Self |
| Directing | Maria Koleva | Director |
| Writing | Maria Koleva | Scenario Writer |
| Production | Maria Koleva | Producer |
| Sound | Yves Gozlan | Sound |
| Crew | Patrice Wyers | Cinematography |
| Production | Christian Renaud | Producer |