“C’est merveilleux” (2000) is a medium-length fiction film by Arnold Pasquier. It was shot in Marseille, Roubaix and Tourcoing  

"Six sequences, six characters, in turn narrators and listeners. Where we explore the whole range of inner confession, amorous and shameless".  

Remark by Arnold Pasquier in 2019 :  

“”C'est merveilleux” is the screen adaptation of a piece of the same name created and presented in the second year at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains. I have kept 6 monologues of the original text that were played by the same interpreters. The piece brought together 5 female architects and 5 male gardeners working in Marseille and Roubaix, and who conversed without ever meeting. The film replays a circulation of speech through a sequence of narrators who speak before a silent listener, who will then become the speaker in the next part, each part looping onto the next. The dance, present in the show (4 interpreters were dancers) is echoed in the film with Vincent Druguet’s solo. »   

Arnold Pasquier was born in Paris in 1968. After studying visual arts and cinema, he made tests in Super 8 and video, in which he developed a world of filmed newspapers and fictions. At the age of twenty, he approaches contemporary dance and collaborates with choreographers as documentarist and dancer. This experience marks the realization of a work where dance holds an important place.
From 1997 to 1999, he was received as a resident artist at the Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France) where he designed the installation "C'est ici que j'avais des baisers" (1997-1999) and produced about twenty short films, four radio design workshops For France Culture and dance performances capturing. In 1999, he presented the show "C'est merveilleux" in the Grande Nef du Fresnoy. He is the author of numerous films (fiction, documentary, video art), staged shows, scenographies, radio broadcasts. His work is articulated at the crossroads of these different disciplines. Winner of a residence Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (outside the wall) in Sao Paulo in 2004, he dances for Julie Desprairies in "La danse en accès accès", "Vue sur la mer" and "Là commence le ciel". He co-signs with her the video-dance installation "Les 3 contents", the result of the residence of the choreographer at the Manufacture de Sèvres (France). 

Source: Website of the Compagnie des prairies  
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