MARSEILLE Angela Schanelec, D 2004, 95 min

Young fotographer Sophie exchanges her flat with a student from Marseille. It's February, Marseille seems rough and inaccessible. Sophie is by herself and takes photographs. In a car repair shop she asks the young mechanic Pierre, if he can get her a car. The more she turns herself over to the city, the more impossible her previous life seems to her ...

Quotations

All of my films are based on the thought, that the better part of life is inscrutable, full of misunderstandings and ruled by chance. The characters live in contradiction between this extradition and the more or less constant try to rebel against it. Also 'Marseille' is about this conflict which is insolvable in the end. (Angela Schanelec)