Retour à Reims (Fragments)
Jean-Gabriel Périot
Told through the text of Didier Eribon, Returning to Reims [Fragments] is a personal and political history of the French working class from the beginning of the 1950s to the present day.
Flagey, Cinematek, La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Before Returning to Reims, Jean-Gabriel Périot directed many short films that trod the line between reportage, experimentation and fiction, drawing on archive material. His feature-length films include the documentaries A German Youth and Our Defeats and the fictional Summer Lights.