Concierges
Director Andreia Barbosa
Countries Portugal, France
Duration 49 min
Synopsis
Concierges immerses us into the routines of three female, Portuguese concierges working in Paris. All aspects of these characters' daily lives are submitted to an objective gaze: daily tasks, relationships with tenants, burocratic questions, free time, meal time discussions, conflicts. Instants in the routines of these three women function as brushstrokes in a portrait of the concierge profession and the emigrant community which, in France, is most easily associated with this profession: the Portuguese community. Being concierges conditions the views that these women have about their country of residence, as well as about their life plans; at the same time, having a Portuguese concierge conditions the life of a building and neighbourhood in Paris. It is in this alchemy, this dependency, that the project Concierges finds itself anchored.
Concierges immerses us into the routines of three female, Portuguese concierges working in Paris. All aspects of these characters' daily lives are submitted to an objective gaze: daily tasks, relationships with tenants, burocratic questions, free time, meal time discussions, conflicts. Instants in the routines of these three women function as brushstrokes in a portrait of the concierge profession and the emigrant community which, in France, is most easily associated with this profession: the Portuguese community. Being concierges conditions the views that these women have about their country of residence, as well as about their life plans; at the same time, having a Portuguese concierge conditions the life of a building and neighbourhood in Paris. It is in this alchemy, this dependency, that the project Concierges finds itself anchored.