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the short film "The Crossing" seen by critics

Tunisia while
short films ... and sensitivities

Asma Drissi
Press 10/01/2009

"short while Tunisia is in fact a Showcasing our film production, bric-a-brac of all that has been the past year in terms of short films. A dense production, certainly, but the quality is not always go.
Some leave, of course, lot and we are the diversity of styles and worlds of these filmmakers, including cross-Driven Mohamed Ben Becher and Nadia Touijer Crossing.

Chassé-croisé: touching and blue flower

Mohamed Ben Becher is not his first film experience, but his fourth short film Chassé-croisé is by far most successful. Presented as part of the evenings of the Tunisian short film last weekend, the film most closely resembles his author, in his world and especially to his artistic sensibility. Crossover is a complicated love story that combines stories of heart and friendship stories. Monia, Malek, Sami Sofiène and grew up together. They shared all the children playing on the terrace of the building. And as the song says, life separates those who love each other, each side to share his dreams. The return of Sofiène de France is a triggering event. The fourth part of the puzzle completes the picture. Except that the age of innocence is far away, and the game became a game for adults: we love each other, it breaks, it separates, it betrays itself and there leaves feathers. A crossover between these four friends broke the stillness of this picture of "family", but the final scene (another flashback) seems to us that these stories of heart break point can the real friendships. To bring to the screen this story, Ben Becher began going back and forth between past and present. Present a realistic and dreamlike memories instead. This past illuminates the present, the narrative-"betraying" the characters and gives us clues to seize all their fragility. Ben Becher viewer moves in and takes a tender look at his characters within the game accentuated by economic dialogue gives this story a psychological dimension. Happiness or the pursuit of happiness, a recurring theme in movies Mohamed Ben Becher, gives the work a hand touching a little blue flower, even if at times it forces a little dose, especially in the scene which is spread rose petals on the bed Monia. Mohamed Ben Becher is letting in a burst of romance, but like it gives the film a naive side irrelevant.

Crossing: a very humble approach

Nadia Touijer crossing is the second film highlight of the evening, selected in official competition of short film JCC 2008. This film was distinguished by his unconventional appearance in Tunisian cinema, rhythm and style of its narration. In the vein of Iranian cinema, Nadia Touijer us into a contemplative journey of the city and its contrasts through the crossing of Amin, a child of 8 years. The purpose of this trip is to file a sticker album, a game that will earn him a bicycle. Wife at times the camera's view of the child, sometimes it leaves us offer various shots of the metropolis. The boy's eyes meet those of a tramp who does it deviate from its course and abandon its march to follow suit. This fiction thrives on reality and which empties into the documentary, such as communicating vessels. And this hostile, Nadia knows Touijer put a few touches of poetry by being attentive to her world to grasp the subtleties of detail. The crossing but lacked adventures, she remained a simple walk around an object known in advance, and even when something new occurs, and that magic in a simple exchange of looks, it is not the least influential in the course of history. Too bad for this silent film, almost meditative, Nadia Touijer has failed to develop this relationship between the child and the Tramp, and the film remained linearly until the end to see the falls. Crossing Nadia Touijer exceeds the simple story of the film is rather a minimalist approach and humble to see the film.
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