CE GRAND PETIT ÊTRE / THAT BIG SMALL BEING – 2020
CE GRAND PETIT ÊTRE / THAT BIG SMALL BEING – 2020
Director: Arturo Prins
Editor & Cinematographer: Arturo Prins
Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Running time: 45 min.
A world historical moment.
The portrait of a Nice paralyzed in quarantine. The small virus Cov-19, becomes a revolting giant on our planet. Its inhabitants secluded in their homes leave the streets deserted.
From a terrace with a swimming pool, like James Stuart in the Hitchcock film “Rear window”, a telephoto camera will film this confinement, its streets, its architectures, seagulls and landscapes day after day. The last day before the quarantine ends, the camera goes outside to meet the few who go to play sports or walk their children. They tell us about their feelings, their fears and doubts, and what they would say to the virus if they could talk to it.
The landscapes also speak and nature especially, with its turquoise sea, the famous Promenade des Anglais and pebble beach, its alps, boats, lighthouses, tractors, gendarmerie helicopters, docks and airports paralyzed, we will discover an incredible Nice, never seen before, like a ghost town.