VILLE EST TRANQUILLE Q&A with director Robert Guediguian Movie Interview by Alice Castle © 2005 PHASE9 ENTERTAINMENT

PHASE9 Interviews the Director - Robert Guediguian 1980 DERNIER ETE 1983 ROUGE MIDI 1985 KI LO SA? 1989 DIEU VOMIT LES TIEDES 1995 TIL DEATH DO US PART 1997 MARIUS ET JEANNETTE 1998 A LA PLACE DU COEUR 2000 A L'ATTAQUE! 2001 LA VILLE EST TRANQUILLE LA VILLE EST TRANQUILLE, like many of your films is set in Marseilles. You grew up in L'Estaque a working class district of the city - has it changed a lot since you were growing up? Marseilles has changed as a city. It's becoming a sort of seaside town now, a resort and people are even finding work. What I knew as a working-class place, a place for immigrant dockers and working people has changed - and I'm not being nostalgic about it, but the harbour especially has changed and it's not necessarily a bad thing. It was changing already in the 50s. Marseilles has always been a town for immigrants - people coming in to work on the docks. Your father was of Armenian descent and your mother German. Do you think that gives Marseilles a special quality? There's something quite special in the fact that it's a town that's never had ghettoes. It's a mix of villages which are criss-crossing that people come to and are immediately integrated because of the whole mix - and the greatest examples are people from Cameroon for example, already say they are from Marseilles and speak with a Marseilles accent. They mix with Algerians, people from Cambodia, Armenia. The mix is there all the time in Marseilles. And this feeling of community - this is reflected in the way you make your films. You use the same actors in all of your films. Is this sense of community reflected in your film making process? Yes I believe and I think better when I'm with others and so the idea of community is something I believe in when I discuss others. Continued on page 2

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