Andana Movies has boarded worldwide gross sales on “Detention” (“La Détention”), Guillaume Massart’s second function, forward of its world premiere within the ACID sidebar on the Cannes Film Festival later this month.
The French documentary is ready contained in the nation’s jail officer academy, the place the movie observes trainees as their language, actions and certainties regularly align with the establishment round them.
Céline Loiseau of TS Productions produced.
“We couldn’t have dreamed of a better premiere for this film than being part of the ACID Cannes selection,” stated Loiseau. “The film is an immersion into the training of prison guards; through it, Guillaume Massart dives into the heart of the carceral system, yet keeps the prison itself off-camera, revealing the society that builds it.”
“We have been following Guillaume Massart’s work for a long time,” stated Stephan Riguet of Andana Movies. “The selection of his new film at ACID Cannes is a wonderful recognition of this long term project.”
“By making prison guards the protagonists of ‘Detention,’ Guillaume Massart creates a self-contained institutional setting that forces us to confront the Kafkaesque machinery of repressive bureaucracy,” ACID committee members Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Thomas Paulot and Paola Termine stated in a joint assertion. “From within the institution, yet without being consumed by it, Massart films the words of its agents, their silences, and a discourse that is beginning to crack. The gap between theory and practice then seems impossible to bridge.”
ACID – France’s filmmaker-led affiliation devoted to championing impartial cinema’s theatrical distribution – has run a sidebar at Cannes since 1992. This 12 months’s version runs Might 13–22.
