Le cri de la soie
This recurring cycle provides an opportunity to present to the public films from various eras and origins thanks to copies recently acquired by the Cinémathèque québécoise. This month, Gus Van Sant's second feature film, Drugstore Cowboy, takes us into the drug-addled America of the 1970s through the adaptation of James Fogle's eponymous autobiographical novel.
Paris, 1914. In a wholestore, a young lady, Marie Benjamin, is found lying on the floor, with an ecstatic face, a piece of silk convulsively tight against her. Arrested then transferred to the infirmary of the jail, she is questionned by the psychiatrist Gabriel de Villemer. Discovering the strange and sensual relation that this illetrate dressmaker has with the silk, Gabriel won’t be able to hide his inner turmoil, since he is also sensitive to the delicate pleasure that fabrics give… By then, these two individuals originally from opposite worlds, will be attracted to each other. But the war comes brutally to stop this nascent relationship. To Marie, Gabriel has been the first man she had been able to confess the secret of her intimity, the only capble of understanding her desire. This is why, despite the obstacles and the adversity, they will meet again and love each other. Until the day they understand that this common passion which bound them together can also separate them…
Yvon Marciano
Yvon Marciano, né le 13 février 1953 à Marnia (Algérie) et mort le 23 novembre 2011 à Rueil-Malmaison, est un réalisateur, scénariste, producteur de cinéma et de télévision, metteur en scène de théâtre et écrivain français.
