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Release Date:
November 4, 2005
Original Title:
La Traversée
Alternate Titles:
Yann Tiersen - La Traversée (2005)
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
EMI France
Production Countries:
France
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 78
A film of the making of the new Tiersen album, Les Retrouvailles, La Traversée (The Crossing), was made by young director Aurelie du Boys. Tiersen says he wanted to fix the moment, immortalize it on film as something freshly created with each of his different collaborators, Jane Birkin, Liz Frazer (of Cocteau Twins), Stuart Staples (of Tindersticks), Dominique A and Christophe Miossec. A musical documentary where you see the musicians struggling with the computer, fine-tuning the recording, smoking a cigarette against the sea spray of Ouessant or riding a scooter down the island's pebbly tracks.
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