Visages de la France


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  • Outros títulos: Faces of France
  • Género: Documentary film
  • Ano: 1957
  • Duração: 00:12:00
  • Descrição: The film starts with views of villages and traditional architecture of the "Basque Country, Normandy, Bretagne, Alsace. The voice-over raises the question of the number of single-family homes that cause urban sprawl, but also highlights the shortcomings of a boring urban planning. The film finally shows great examples of public housing - bright, airy, with parks and gardens.
    The film begins with views of villages and traditional architecture in the Basque Country, the Landes, Touraine, Normandy, Brittany and Alsace. The voice-over asks: should France be transformed into a museum of its old houses? and continues: why are the 10 to 15 meter high houses in Honfleur only 3 to 5 meters wide? The commentary raises the question of the number of single-family homes in cities that lead to urban sprawl. When cities have built buildings, the commentary wonders what is behind these facades? Narrow courtyards that the sun never visits, an unheard of tangle of heterogeneous constructions. The time of great prosperity of the third republic did not know how to build anything great continues the voice-over. This document proposes us then an animation of model for the development of a wasteland. At first, in the manner of before with the individual house. The voice-over exclaims: it is not otherwise that ugly suburbs were born that so many cities were forever ugly, let's try something else. The animation starts piling up individual houses and proposes collective buildings in gardens. The commentary continues: now it's the town planner's time to distribute the buildings in the city. Several organizations of collective housing are proposed in models. The voice-over points out the defects of a too boring urbanism of the big groups. Then a solution emerges from the animation: for the city to live it is necessary to put in the place of honor school, dispensary, library, meeting room, then come the two masterpieces two large buildings then the streets slip into the composition and finally the lawns and gardens appear and here is concluded the commentary. The film then shows the realization of large buildings and we enter a building within a family: air and light are at rendezvous. We see children roller-skating in the park of the building and the voice-over announces: the individualism of the old-fashioned shop is over: the whole city is a garden, children's games mingle with flowers. The film ends with views of the construction of large housing projects throughout France (including a view of Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse in Marseille). (Text machine-translated)
  • Palavras-chave: (construction) site / leisure / suburb / town / garden / school / summer / children / family / square / street / train / children's game / social gathering / vegetation / postwar architecture / prewar architecture / public housing / living room / playground / Bordeaux / Honfleur / France / VICTOR-E project
  • Fornecedor: Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme
  • Direitos: In Copyright / Ministère de la Reconstruction et de l'Urbanisme
  • Companhia produtora: Atlantic-Film Marcel de Hubsch
  • Cor: Black & White
  • Director: Marcel de Hubsch
  • Sound: With sound
  • Language: fr