Thomas Valentin

À l’occasion des 20 ans de "Caméra Café", la joyeuse bande a repris du service ! Pour prolonger le plaisir de ces retrouvailles, ce documentaire revient sur la genèse de la série et vous emmène dans les coulisses de son retour événement. Ravis de ces retrouvailles, les comédiens livrent leurs anecdotes de tournage. Enfin, journalistes et sociologues décryptent les raisons qui ont fait de la série un phénomène de société, et se penchent sur la complicité entre Bruno Solo et Yvan Le Bolloc’h.

Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project — the life and times of a German literary figure — and making it interesting. Christian Dietrich Grabbes lived a very short life in the first half of the 19th century and is primarily known for his satire, skepticism, basurd theater and the fact that he presaged the Postmodern movement in literature. Hannibal and Don Juan and Faust are two of his better-known works. In this docudrama, his Comedy, Satire, Irony and Deeper Meaning is featured partly because it gives a drubbing to the icons of German thought that had a stranglehold on the creative process. One memorable moment in this three-and-a-half-hour story is when the alcoholic writer is caught in the throes of delirium and comes around to see his own mother as a figure of death. The irony is that an Iranian director could capture the spirit and age of a German writer so well