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L’Envie de tourner

2023 · 52 min

A warm, low-key documentary that immerses you in the scrappy, earnest world of amateur genre filmmaking.

Directed by
Sylvain Perret
Genres
Documentary
Starring
François Gaillard
Overview
In the 80s and 90s, a generation of budding filmmakers nurtured by exploitation cinema took advantage of the democratization of consumer filming equipment to embark on the self-production of fantastic and horror films. François Gaillard is one of them.

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Directed by
Sylvain Perret
Genres
Documentary
Starring
François Gaillard
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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • ambition
  • identity
  • media
  • friendship
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour3
Realism9
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity4
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Sylvain Perret
Starring
François Gaillard
Runtime
52 min
Languages
French

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