Meantime in Grez

Colour, 35mm
Sweden, 2002, 12 min
Section: Documentary Films in Competition

Synopsis

In the sleepy little French town of Grez-sur-Loing the bakery is first to open its doors in the morning and the local bar is last to close up at night. From a window, the camera pans over life on the street: a kid juggling in a window of the house opposite, an old man shopping, the ever-present regulars at a local restaurant disturbed only by the movements of a cat. But this dreamy idyll is disturbed by a short SMS communicating news of last September’s World Trade Center disaster. With suitable restraint, the film records the clash between daily life in the French countryside and a catastrophe which happened thousands of miles away; it also bears witness to the effect of fear on the mind of the individual.

About the director

Ylva Floreman (b. 1954, Malmö, Sweden) works as a journalist, director, writer and teacher. Filmography: Ovanlandet (1985), Armors bilar (1988), Själens Hus(1995), Ppsti marti (1996), Vem Bryr Sig! (2000), Meantime in Grez (2002).