The Le Bretagne cinema in Saint-Renan is organizing several meetings with filmmakers in May 2024. A first meeting is organized on Monday May 6, 2024, at 8:30 p.m., in the presence of director Nicolas Guillou. He will talk with the public after the screening of his film “We will always be there!” Plogoff 1980.
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The film retraces the period from January to March 1980 and the project to establish a nuclear power plant in Plogoff. Jeanne, a resident of the town, decides to join the fight and will fight with her loved ones for months to denounce and prevent this installation. An intense fight which will become the testimony of a historic struggle.
“I kept this memory like an indelible imprint”
“I was 10 years old when these events took place in the 1980s. I kept this memory like an indelible imprint. A very strong desire arose in me, that of a film, that of telling the story seen from the inside, by Plogoffists. To make this film, I delved into my memories and testimonies from the time,” explains Nicolas Guillou. His fiction was a great success in theaters. “Three versions of the film exist: French, Breton and Breton subtitled in French,” specifies Eric Simonin who will accompany the director to Saint-Renan.
Thousands of people mobilized
The town of Plogoff, in South Finistère, found itself at the center of an environmental movement of exceptional scale. Thousands of people gathered to express their disagreement with this project.
“The Plogoff event marked a turning point in collective consciousness regarding environmental issues, particularly linked to nuclear energy. In this film, sometimes close to a documentary, I wanted to reinforce this reality to be as much as possible in the struggle, while remaining as close as possible to history,” underlines Nicolas Guillou. The mobilization ultimately led to the abandonment of the nuclear power plant project.
Practical
Next meeting Tuesday May 7, 2024, at 8:30 p.m., documentary “Borderline” with psychiatrist Jamal Abdel Kader. Cinema Le Bretagne, 18, rue Saint-Mathieu, in Saint-Renan. Prices: session €6.
