{"id":548,"date":"2025-10-31T18:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T17:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/?p=548"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T18:37:12","slug":"avec-linconnu-de-la-grande-arche-de-stephane-demoustier-larchitecture-fait-son-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/?p=548","title":{"rendered":"Avec \u00ab\u00a0L&rsquo;inconnu de la grande arche\u00a0\u00bb de Stephane Demoustier, l&rsquo;architecture fait son cin\u00e9ma!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"4032\" height=\"3024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zigzart.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_6042.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-549\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>St\u00e9phane Demoustier pr\u00e9sente son film \u00e0 la presse lyonnaise au Comoedia, le 2 octobre (photo JFM).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 L<\/span>e sc\u00e9nario de \u00ab L\u2019Inconnu de la grande arche \u00bb est de St\u00e9phane Demoustier, son r\u00e9alisateur, d\u2019apr\u00e8s le livre de Laurence Coss\u00e9. Cela m\u00e9rite explication . Le livre de Mme Coss\u00e9 est, selon Wikip\u00e9dia, \u00ab un r\u00e9cit historique de la construction de l\u2019Arche \u00bb, autrement dit une chronologie pr\u00e9cise des d\u00e9cisions notamment politiques qui ont marqu\u00e9 l\u2019\u00e9dification de ce b\u00e2timent embl\u00e9matique des ann\u00e9es 80. Bref, un pr\u00e9cieux aide-m\u00e9moire pour ne pas trahir l\u2019exactitude des faits mais pas du tout le sc\u00e9nario d\u2019un film de fiction. Or, c\u2019est bien ce que voulait faire Demoustier, une fiction et non un documentaire d\u2019architecture (il en a fait, \u00e0 ses d\u00e9buts, quand il travaillait au minist\u00e8re de la Culture). Et il y a parfaitement r\u00e9ussi. \u00ab L\u2019Inconnu de la grande arche \u00bb, est bien une fiction : \u00a0Demoustier dramatise ses personnages, imagine leurs caract\u00e8res, leurs sentiments et leurs raisons d\u2019agir. On ne sait rien, par exemple, du r\u00f4le jou\u00e9 \u00ab en vrai \u00bb par l\u2019\u00e9pouse de l\u2019architecte et ce qu\u2019en dit le film est une invention du r\u00e9alisateur, il nous l\u2019a dit !<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mais de <\/span>quel genre de fiction ?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>L\u2019auteur penche pour une enqu\u00eate socio-politique \u00e0 la mani\u00e8re de \u00ab\u00a0Le Ca\u00efman\u00a0\u00bb de Nanni Moretti. Pour ma part, j\u2019\u00e9voquais plut\u00f4t un western, par exemple \u00ab\u00a0Le train sifflera trois fois\u00a0\u00bb, tant le h\u00e9ros du film, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, l\u2019architecte de la grande arche, est isol\u00e9, seul contre tous dans son combat pour r\u00e9aliser son \u0153uvre ! Qu\u2019importe ! Ce qui compte, c\u2019est que l\u2019on se passionne pour cette histoire vraie, qu\u2019on partage les enthousiasmes et les d\u00e9couragements du h\u00e9ros passionn\u00e9, incapable de la moindre concession dans l\u2019ex\u00e9cution de son projet. Autour de lui, on retrouve des personnages historiques, Mitterrand, Jupp\u00e9, qui ont effectivement jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le dans cette histoire. S\u2019il s\u2019attache \u00e0 restituer pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment leur action ,Demoustier n\u2019a pas cherch\u00e9 la ressemblance physique , toujours impossible \u00e0 atteindre. N\u2019emp\u00eache ! Il faut un peu de temps pour r\u00e9aliser que le personnage jou\u00e9 ( tr\u00e8s bien d\u2019ailleurs ) par Michel Fau est Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand ! On notera que Claes Bang , l\u2019excellent acteur danois qui incarne Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, ne parle pas un mot de fran\u00e7ais et a appris en phon\u00e9tique toutes ses r\u00e9pliques dans le film !<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>Le film reconstitue avec pr\u00e9cision la construction de la grande arche : des photos d\u2019\u00e9poque ont \u00e9t\u00e9 anim\u00e9es et des \u00e9l\u00e9ments de d\u00e9cor ont \u00e9t\u00e9 construits en studio. Les Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es ont m\u00eame \u00e9t\u00e9 ferm\u00e9s \u00e0 la circulation durant deux heures, un dimanche matin, pour permettre de tourner la sc\u00e8ne qui figure sur l\u2019affiche ! On retrouve bien dans le film l\u2019atmosph\u00e8re des ann\u00e9es 80, dont Demoustier, qui \u00e9tait enfant \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque, consid\u00e8re comme \u00ab\u00a0la fin d\u2019une \u00e9poque romantique\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019inconnu de la grande arche\u00a0\u00bb est un film tout \u00e0 fait original qui nous fait toucher du doigt, sans discours, les enjeux urbanistiques et esth\u00e9tiques de l\u2019am\u00e9nagement d\u2019une grande ville ; \u00e0 voir sans h\u00e9siter !<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Martinon<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0St\u00e9phane Demoustier pr\u00e9sente son film \u00e0 la presse lyonnaise au Comoedia, le 2 octobre (photo JFM). \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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