Manifester dans les Étoiles
2026 · 2m
Directed by Vincent Monti
Genres: documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
In the early 1970s, visionary architects Renée Gailhoustet and Jean Renaudie designed downtown Ivry-sur-Seine, putting architectural beauty at the service of residents' lives and social housing; today, inhabitants and shopkeepers fight to preserve the Étoiles d'Ivry, a unique but deteriorated architectural ensemble.
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Most docs genuflect before their subject; Monti's actually suspicious of the myth—he loves the architects' utopian ambitions but doesn't let us off the hook for how spectacularly they aged. It's a genre-bender pretending to be a straight essay.
A formally rigorous meditation on preservation and architectural legacy that positions itself squarely in the lineage of Marker and Varda—the two-minute constraint forces an almost lapidary precision in how Monti assembles image, voice, and historical argument.
The choice to let deterioration speak louder than restoration rhetoric—those crumbling façades framed with the same formal reverence as the architects' original vision—is what makes this breathe on a shoestring.