Magma, with Marina Foïs: “The volcano is a metaphor” (trailer)
“There is a social magma, too, a population that is fed up with it that it is a walk, that it may not be the truth.”
Katia Reiter (Marina Foïs) has directed the Volcanological Observatory of Guadeloupe for ten years. She forms a shock duo with Aimé (Théo Christine), young Guadeloupean to which she transmits her passion for the profession. While she is preparing for a new mission to the other end of the world, the threat of a major eruption of the Soufrière is looming. The island is at the Abois and Katia will have to ensure the security of the population …
Pyramid unveils this week the trailer for Magmafrom Cyprien Vial, a fictional film inspired by real facts, that its director and co-series (with Nicolas Pleskof) agreed to decrypt to First. Met at the Sarlat Festival, here is how he presented the concept of this film to see from March 19 in France. Note that it will be offered in the Antilles with a little ahead: the video specifies that Magma will be released in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guyana from February 21.
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“Magma is a word that evokes several things, several strata of the story, begins its director. The magma is first of all this material whose scientists try to follow the path: the magma is mounted, it causes a wake -up of the volcano. ‘Impotence in the face of both the political sphere embodied by the prefect (Mathieu Demy), and also in front of populations who are a little wandered during the film and who, in the end, no longer listen to anyone. No longer listen to it, the scientist. Make it a walk, that we may not tell him the truth. So the volcano is here a metaphor, which boils all these magma. “
“Bringing up a deaf tension, this is Magma’s ambition, he continues. And dive the spectators behind the scenes of the scientific offices of volcanologists, which is a science which knows how to foresee a little but which does not know how to say the near minute which will happen. There is something very strong here. It’s a very long time. The confrontation of long time of science and faster time of life generates a kind of soft magma which we do not know too much if he will unravel or not … “
“The film is inspired by an event that took place in the 1970s, Also explains Cyprien Vial. In 1976, the Soufrière showed signs of awakening, and it led to a crisis. Many people have been evacuated because the authorities decided, rightly, to evacuate them. They led 70,000 people from the south of Guadeloupe to the Grande Terre. Some left to live with their family with cousins, friends, but those who could not be accommodated were welcomed in gymnasiums or schools.
At that time, these people are nicknamed ‘The magmas’, first in a affectionate and teased way. During the first weeks of the evacuation, the northern people are welcoming, but the functioning of all of society in the north of the island is modified. Northern children can only go to school until morning, because in the afternoon the little ones ‘Magmas’ Must go there, for example. And it is very badly lived because this evacuation lasts a long time. Too long. At the time, Claude Allègre, the boss of the French volcanology, omit to say that the volcanic crisis is finished and the evacuated are maintained. For an abusive period, so it generates in a situation that I do not approach directly into the film, but a situation of tension, overcrowding in an area. “
“The film project is to wonder today what could happen if the volcano showed the same type of signs of awakening as at the time, when there is in Guadeloupe other forms of tensions, add the director of Magma. The event of the time is really the story of two figures of scientists, Haroun Tazieff and Claude Allègre, who behave like excessive ego, who want to be right, and this generates a socially inadmissible, serious situation. Me, I tried to offer a more optimistic story, even if the film is very tense and my heroine struggles well, I tried to invent a pair that is more united, less detestable. It was for me necessary that in the pair, there is a representative of the Guadeloupe, loved by Guadeloupe, who is a young thesard. “
Cyprien Vial also addresses the ecological questions posed by his film, the way in which the global COVIDD crisis has fueled this project, and its shooting in full “Wild Nature of Guadeloupe”in parallel with that of season 2 ofIn placethe series with Jean-Pascal Zadi. His full interview will be available at the time of the Magma in the cinema.
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