"In the beginning, what is LA PUNITION (THE PUNISHMENT)? A game. A board game. We suppose that a young Parisian of eighteen suddenly finds himself free for a whole day. Three people, two of whom she has never seen, will approach her in a public place, at an agreed time. Their words will be free, but a light camera, particularly mobile will record these meetings, will retain the way in which this young girl will have found a friend or discovered strangers who gradually will have ceased to be strangers to her. She is young, she is beautiful. Her partners come from different ages and backgrounds. The temptation to flirt will always be present in the debate, as a rule of the game, and it will be all the more tempting to push in this direction since it is about a dead end, that these characters will never be entirely characters, that the game will necessarily have an end, that the hypothesis of a real adventure is excluded from the outset ".

A film by Jean ROUCH

with Nadine Ballot, Jean-Claude Darnal, Modeste Landry, Jean-Marie Simon

France, 1962, Fiction, 1h04, Comedy

Title: La punition ou les mauvaises rencontres

YEAR: 1962
NATIONALITY: France
RUNNING TIME: 1h04
DIRECTOR'S COUNTRY: Niger
COLOUR: Colour
Tags: FEATURE FILM, CIVILIZATION, GEOGRAPHY, FICTION, COMEDY, Paris, Psychology, Youth

DIRECTOR
Jean ROUCH

DISTRIBUTION:
CINÉMATHÈQUE AFRIQUE (Paris)
until: 27/03/2024
(COUNTRIES EXCLUDED: Bahamas, Canada, Irlande, Puerto Rico, USA, United Kingdom)