Le soir recule AKA Night Recedes (Timon Koulmasis, 2023) EN

Fascinating and romantic, the Makris family's journey spans the turmoil and prosperity of the 20th century. The Greek sculptor Memos and his wife Zizi, a mosaic artist and engraver, experienced Athens under German occupation, the thriving post-war Paris, and Budapest during the Cold War. But they always endeavored to protect their love and creative energy. Marked by a faith in progress and humanity, their works have asserted themselves at the heart of their time, maintaining an intense connection to the history they experience and that experiences them: the anti-fascist struggle, the Holocaust, and participation—between resistance and collaboration with a totalitarian regime—in the construction of a more just socialist world. Caught between utopias and ideologies, hopes and disillusionments, the lives of Memos and Zizi Makris acutely pose questions that remain relevant today: what can art do, what does it build, what does it oppose? In an inventive cinematic language, proceeding through narrative ruptures based on different media (super-eight, HD, 16mm), this documentary essay unfolds an emotional space where the spectator is confronted with the events of the past, presented in the form of rare archives with creative treatment. An intimate double portrait where art and history echo each other. https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt35484940/