Sous le vent (1991) Robert Kramer

The Ministry of Culture has commissioned films on the cultural decade “in progress“. Robert Kramer is directing one of the six short films that illustrate, in terms of culture, the Mitterrand decade. Here, we see a cinema director from the suburbs of Caen, in her room covered in flowered wallpaper. This is for art house cinema. There, the critic Serge Daney in a sailor’s cap, for a chat by the fireside. An overview of French cinema today, from “Pickpocket“ to television. Then back to oneself. The camera slides over the desk that we imagine to be Kramer’s. Finally, the camera flies over Paris, slides along the facades, stops at a window, entering the skylight: “Films invite you to see... I invite you to see Jean Genet’s hotel room“.