• Director(s):

    AMALRIC (MATHIEU)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, FILMS DU POISSON (LES)

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2009

  • Language(s):

    German, English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

Mathieu Amalric films Joann Sfar at work. A humorous insight into the world of the author of French comic strip "Le Chat du Rabbin".

Mathieu Amalric takes up a unique opportunity to accompany the prolific French cartoonist Joann Sfar to some of the places where he sketches his characters: in front of Nénette the Orangutan's cage at the Jardin des Plantes zoo in Paris, at the Rungis fish market, in a dissection lab at the Faculty of Medicine, in a restaurant, in a bar.
Sketching all the while, Sfar speaks about his work, about the need to draw from nature, and about the frustration he experiences at never being able to capture exactly what he really sees and the way in which this frustration spurs his imagination. The sequences are interspersed with the reading of (very appropriately) chosen extracts from the cartoonist's diary "Carnets", published by the Association.

2011 : Award for Creativity at FIFA - International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal, Canada).