L'Époque
Matthieu Bareyre
Paris. From the Charlie Hebdo attacks to the presidential elections, a journey into the night with young people who don't sleep. Their dreams, nightmares, drunkenness, gentleness, boredom and tears. The parties, coffee terraces, jobs, the amnesia, their future. 2015, 2016, 2017: our time.
Screenplay : Matthieu Bareyre, Sophia Collet
Image : Matthieu Bareyre
Sound : Thibaut Dufait
Editing : Matthieu Bareyre, Isabelle Proust, Matthieu Vassiliev
Music : Soall, Vivaldi, KRS One, Nekfeu, Que, My Brightest Diamond, Fatyo, Swip, Daks le Vrai
Image : Matthieu Bareyre
Sound : Thibaut Dufait
Editing : Matthieu Bareyre, Isabelle Proust, Matthieu Vassiliev
Music : Soall, Vivaldi, KRS One, Nekfeu, Que, My Brightest Diamond, Fatyo, Swip, Daks le Vrai
Production : Valéry Du Peloux (Artisans du Film), en coproduction avec Cécile Lestrade (Alter Ego Production) et Frédéric Ouziel (ADF l'Atelier)
Distribution: Bac Films
International sales: Bac Films
Distribution: Bac Films
International sales: Bac Films
Matthieu Bareyre has written for Critikat, Vertigo and the review Débordements. His first short documentary, Nocturnes (2015), was selected for the Cinéma du réel and the Rencontres européennes du moyen métrage in Brive. L'Époque, his first feature, was selected for the Locarno Festival in August 2018. In the theatre he has worked on plays by director Marion Siéfert.
“That particular moment for 18-25-year-olds, a time where you ask yourself fundamental questions: do you accept the world you have inherited, or do you take time to question it? The way I lived it and still see it, youth is a very difficult period: on the one hand you're told it the prime of life, on the other, what young people say is always denigrated. I've heard all sorts of theories about my “generation”, whether its X, Y or WTF, apolitical, sad, lost, immature, consumers of drugs and clothes, tech junkies. So, I created a film where I could put everything couldn't hear, say, see or show from my adolescence. Not a film “on” youth, but made from the inside of youth, a film where the energy is not held back by morality, or a vision from the outside. A film which doesn't stop young people talking but one which gives them a platform”. (Matthieu Bareyre)
“That particular moment for 18-25-year-olds, a time where you ask yourself fundamental questions: do you accept the world you have inherited, or do you take time to question it? The way I lived it and still see it, youth is a very difficult period: on the one hand you're told it the prime of life, on the other, what young people say is always denigrated. I've heard all sorts of theories about my “generation”, whether its X, Y or WTF, apolitical, sad, lost, immature, consumers of drugs and clothes, tech junkies. So, I created a film where I could put everything couldn't hear, say, see or show from my adolescence. Not a film “on” youth, but made from the inside of youth, a film where the energy is not held back by morality, or a vision from the outside. A film which doesn't stop young people talking but one which gives them a platform”. (Matthieu Bareyre)