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Les heures heureuses

Lucky Hours

France / Switzerland / Belgium, April 2019
FILM, Documentary, 77 min.

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directed by
Martine Deyres
Status
In distribution

Between 1939 and 1945, more than 40,000 patients died in French psychiatric hospitals. Only one place makes exception to this hecatomb, the asylum of an isolated village in the centre of France: Saint-Alban-sur-Limagnole. Caregivers, nuns and sick people work during these dark years side by side for the survival of all for all, with the complicity of the villagers. Thanks to the psychiatrists François Tosquelles and Lucien Bonnafé, Saint-Alban becomes the asylum which receives clandestinely war refugees and resistants. Among them, some prestigious artistic and intellectual figures like Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, Georges Sadoul, or Georges Canguilhem. On a daily basis, in a hallway of the asylum, Auguste Forestier, an internee, builds wooden boats and figurines he exchanges with the villagers for a few kilograms of potatoes. When the painter Jean Dubuffet, at the invitation of Eluard, goes to Saint-Alban at the end of the war, he discovers the sculptures of Forestier and uses for the first time the term “Art Brut”.

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World Premiere
April 2019
Original Version
French (english subtitles),  colour, DCP, 77 min.
Production
Les films du tambour de soie, Bande à part Films, Lux Fugit Film
Producer
directed by
Martine Deyres
Editing
Philippe Boucq, Catherine Catella, Martine Deyres
Sound Editing
Etienne Curchod
Re-Recording Mix
Etienne Curchod

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