The Mistral
Director Joris Ivens
Countries France
Duration 30 min
Synopsis
"The real mistral doesn’t blow there, however it’s the place where it dies away. You can feel the struggle between two winds there- the mistral and the tramontane. It is a battle line. Afterwords i met some people, including a wine producer. I talked to them has we walked around and I realised that the wind was important for those people; It was concrete, it was real. I felt then that the wind was an excellent theme for a documentary. Perhaps because it perpetually moves, because it changes the colour of places, the atmosphere, people's psychology... All Provence is dominated by it. Its architecture, its history, its culture are impregnated with it. "(Joris Ivens interviewed in "Cinema 64", 1964)
"The real mistral doesn’t blow there, however it’s the place where it dies away. You can feel the struggle between two winds there- the mistral and the tramontane. It is a battle line. Afterwords i met some people, including a wine producer. I talked to them has we walked around and I realised that the wind was important for those people; It was concrete, it was real. I felt then that the wind was an excellent theme for a documentary. Perhaps because it perpetually moves, because it changes the colour of places, the atmosphere, people's psychology... All Provence is dominated by it. Its architecture, its history, its culture are impregnated with it. "(Joris Ivens interviewed in "Cinema 64", 1964)