The Real Life
Director Arnaud Gerber
Countries France, Germany
Duration 76 min
Synopsis
In 1934, the French philosopher Simone Weil decided to experience the life of chain workers. She worked at Alsthom and Renault, until her bad health urged her to quit., Her factory diary later became the book The workers' condition, in which she notably questioned the abstraction of modern capitalism., Today, her letters open a dialogue with another abstraction. Our abstraction. That of the skyscrapers area of La Défense, in Paris. Lines, points, planes. Colors., Stone, iron, glass. Reflected ghosts in mirrors. Mechanical daily movements. And there, just behind the Grande Arche, a bridge leading to nowhere. And two cemetaries., 15 stations for a Way of the Cross.
In 1934, the French philosopher Simone Weil decided to experience the life of chain workers. She worked at Alsthom and Renault, until her bad health urged her to quit., Her factory diary later became the book The workers' condition, in which she notably questioned the abstraction of modern capitalism., Today, her letters open a dialogue with another abstraction. Our abstraction. That of the skyscrapers area of La Défense, in Paris. Lines, points, planes. Colors., Stone, iron, glass. Reflected ghosts in mirrors. Mechanical daily movements. And there, just behind the Grande Arche, a bridge leading to nowhere. And two cemetaries., 15 stations for a Way of the Cross.