Vivre est une solution (1980) by Gérard Courant

Un ciné-poème de Gérard Courant entièrement filmé sur les bords du canal Saint-Martin à Paris (France). Un film hommage à “Hôtel du Nord“ de Marcel Carné et à Arletty à qui le film est dédié. Troisième partie de la Tétralogie “Le Jardin des Abymes“. “Once again, Courant uses his own love for cinema as a source of inspiration; in this case, the trigger is “Hôtel du Nord“ (1938), directed by Marcel Carné and starred by Arletty. “Vivre est une solution“ is a tribute to this actress, portrayed as if she was a new heroine that carries on every rite of passage in the two previous episodes of the “Le Jardin des Abymes“ tetralogy. Yet now she is absent, and evoked as a ghost. Immersing himself in Paris after travelling through the Pyrenees in the previous segment, Courant approaches the sensitivity of the Nouvelle Vague to shoot his love letter for the French capital, incl