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Every Little Thing – a film by Nicolas Philibert, director of ‘Etre et avoir (Q&A with Andy Townsend of distributor Second Run DVD)

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 7:30 PM (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

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Venue: the October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, London, WC1N 3AL Tuesday 13th February, 7.30pm (doors open from 7.00pm) Tickets: £5.00/4.00 (concessions) For more information, and on-line booking, see www.pocketvisions.co.uk Prix Meilleur Documentaire, Postdam Film Festival 1997 Gran Prix du Public, Montreal Film Festival 1997 The protagonists in this film are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric institute in France. Each summer they perform a play on a stage set in the beautiful grounds of the chateau. The film charts the passage of this magical event and allows the viewer a glimpse at life in one of the world's most highly regarded psychiatric institutions. Philibert, director of the hugely-acclaimed Etre et avoir and In the Land of the Deaf, calmly and compassionately builds an experience that is less like watching a documentary than like being enveloped in a book of breathlessly honest poetry. He delicately celebrates the work of La Borde and quietly makes us question the distinctions that society applies in classifying as normal or abnormal. Review: ‘The sense of rightness and delicacy in the judgements that underpin Nicolas Philibert’s films is borne of a profound humanist impulse. Philibert himself put this well when he says that rather than making films 'about', he makes films 'with and thanks to'. Every Little Thing was filmed through the summer of 1995 in the La Borde psychiatric clinic in the Loire valley and shows the preparations and rehearsals for the clinic’s yearly production, which for the year in question, is the absurdist drama Operetta by the Polish writer Witold Gombrowicz. The preparations for the play are inclusive. Everyone has a part to play and none is too small, from acting and singing, to playing an instrument and designing the programme. Of course, with such a place and subject, boundaries are blurred between residents and staff. Not to indistinction though, it’s just that there’s a sense that for the time being, the play is more imporant than any apparent differences. Indeed, at one point, a resident wanders in front of the camera, saying the words, ‘I can’t take anymore’ before walking off. A sense of disquiet is tempered by not knowing whether he is commenting on the action of filming him, speaking of his own situation or simply speaking lines from the play. Each is plausible. There are moments of profound surprise. One of the residents works on the clinic’s switchboard. When the caller doesn’t clearly understand what he is telling her, he switches to quietly-spoken and beautifully-enunciated English, which makes things clear. This moment of finding a common language illuminates the rest of the film, in which the common purpose is the play. When the same man is later asked what he thinks of it, he replies, ‘the lines are completely illogical - that consoles me’. – Movie Mail Director: Nicolas Philibert Year of Production: 1996 Running Time: 100 mins Country of Production: France