Juste un mouvement

  • Juste un mouvement
Genre : Experimental
Type : Fiction
Original title : Quelle que soit la longueur de la nuit...
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2021
Format : Feature
Running time : 108 (in minutes)

"Omar is dead!", a voice cried out in Dakar, 11 May 1973. The eldest of the Blondin Diop family, a young militant philosopher, and the articulate Maoist in Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise had allegedly committed suicide in his Gorée Island prison cell. His family and friends did not believe a word of it, demanding that light be shed on this political crime. A phantom haunts the Senegalese capital, itself in a state of unrest.

Juste un Mouvement is a free take on La Chinoise, a Jean-Luc Godard movie shot in 1967 in Paris. Reallocating its roles and characters fifty years later in Dakar, and updating its plot, this new version offers a meditation on the relationship between politics, justice and memory. Although not anymore alive, Omar Blondin Diop, the only actual Maoist student in the original movie, now becomes the key character.

Shot exclusively with non-professional actors and including Omar Blondin Diop's brothers and friends, everyone in this film performs themselves: a filmmaker, a rapper, a poet, a Chinese worker, a Shaolin master, a Senegalese intellectual, the Minister of Culture of Senegal and the Vice President of the People's Republic of China.


Juste Un Mouvement - trailer from Thank You & Good Night product on Vimeo.




Juste un Mouvement, 2021
108 minutes, HD, sound & colour, Dolby 5.1

Directed by VINCENT MEESSEN

with
DIALO BLONDIN DIOP
OUSMAN BLONDIN DIOP
MARIE THÉRÈSE DIEDHIOU
ALIOUNE PALOMA SALL
BOUBA DIALLO
CHEIKH HAMALA BLONDIN DIOP
ALYMANA BATHILY
LANDING SAVANÉ
MARIE-ANGÉLIQUE SAGNA

and
MAMADOU KHOUMA GUEYE
FELWINE SARR
FOU MALADE
MAME AWA LY FALL
MADIAW NJAAY
FI LU
PA & MA LU
DOUDOU FALL
LI YUANCHAO
THIERNO SEYDOU SALL

Assistant director MAMADOU KHOUMA GUEYE
Cinematography VINCENT PINCKAERS
Sound and sound design LASZLO UMBREIT
Sound mix RÉMI GÉRARD
Colorgrading MILÉNA TRIVIER
Editing SIMON ARAZI
Music director WOUTER VANDENABEELE
Location manager MOUHAMED SIRADJI
Subtitles ERIK LAMBERT
Image lab COBALT
Graphic design SPEC

Original soundtrack
WOUTER VANDENABEELE
LI-LING HUANG
BAO SISSOKO
LODE VERCAMPT
HUA XIA

Coproduction BELGIUM/FRANCE
JUBILEE
Vincent Meessen
Inneke Van Waeyenberghe

THANK YOU & GOOD NIGHT productions
Geneviève De Bauw

SPECTRE productions
Olivier Marboeuf

CBA - Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles
Javier Packer Comyn

MAGELLAN Films
Samuel Feller

Produced with the support of
Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Service public francophone bruxellois
Vlaams audiovisueel fonds (VAF)

and
CNAP-Image/Mouvement
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Mu.ZEE, Oostende
34a Bienal de São Paulo
Art et Recherche
Région Bretagne
Argos Centre for audiovisual arts
Belgium Federal Government Tax shelter

Summary for official catalogues

Dans un puissant essai politique et cinématographique, Vincent Meessen explore la trajectoire de l'intellectuel maoïste sénégalais Omar Blondin Diop, figure de l'opposition au président Léopold Sédar Senghor, disparu dans des circonstances troubles.

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