Rendez-vous of the Docks (Carpita, 1955): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 3.45pm
This is part of the 'Censored to Restored' season at BFI Southbank.
The screening on July 7th will include an introduction.
Museum of Modern Art introduction:
Banned in France for three decades, Paul Carpita’s 1955 feature Rendez-vous of the Docks
emerges both as a vital document of postwar French social consciousness
and a precious record of working-class life in midcentury Marseille.
Self-described as “a schoolteacher who knew how to use a camera,”
Carpita brought both artistic ambition and documentary rigor to this
politically charged narrative, in which a young couple searches for a
home against the background of Marseille’s dock workers’ strikes of the
early 1950s. The film captures a critical moment when workers,
discovering they were loading munitions by day while secretly unloading
soldiers’ coffins by night, went on strike in protest of France’s
Indochina War.
Here (and above) is an extract.
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