“Hello sir. I’m a doctor. What music do you listen to?”. Welcome to the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis. It took three years of negotiations before director Éric Guéret could push the doors of this intensive care unit alone with his camera. He is primarily there to shoot the emergencies of the feature film Premiers urgences, which will hit theaters on November 16. However, the eye of the documentary filmmaker also turned to this very special wing of the hospital, the “réa”. The first striking calmness in these white rooms where lives are saved and accompanied until death. “The staff is very professional, everything is systematic. There is no panic. Nobody is running, it is impressive”». That’s why and yet there is no spectacular display: this is a real balancing act in which the nursing staff participate. Everyone is struggling, everyone is out of breath. Like some of his patients. Is Covid mandatory? “Yes and no,” says the director. I shot between November and May of last year, that is, during the second and third wave of the epidemic. But I did not want to deal with pathologies. “Human support. This is really a movie about. team empathy is what we talk less about”. On the sick side is Mr. Asharf, whose wife is staying in Pakistan, Ms. Jouini, whose first request after she is out of danger will be to buy her husband and perfume.
hold on as long as we can
The camera slowly sinks, examining the empty corridors, the viewer clinging to his sneakers. Here is not the sounds, tears or pipes connected to the beating machines, but the humanity of those who treat, wash, caress, entrust, announce, often cautiously, sometimes tightly overflowing. “We applaud them during the pandemic, but ultimately we didn’t see their humanity in the images we showered. They’re absolutely gorgeous with the way they put their voices and hands out when they talk.”
Little do they know “They will do this for the rest of their lives”. The nurse who, like Maud, evokes this scale of tolerance that lives in all of them. “We have a quota of difficult situations. When we’re tired, we’re leaving”“What is at issue here is the vital prognosis of patients as well as the vital prognosis of the public hospital. Despite failures, despite death, despite lack of recognition and tools, doctors, nurses and nurses “much more busy than it should be” According to Maud. Fights, Éric Guéret has filmed some in his career as a documentary filmmaker: Greenpeace, CGT unionists, Ascova steel mill workers, pesticide-stricken farmers, women on the street, and even victims of male violence. The public hospital is special for him. “We have an amazing tool that relies mainly on the dedication of the people who run it. And we have a feeling that there is an absolutely incomprehensible logic in destroying it.“.
Vital prognosis: Wednesday, October 12th at 23:05 in France
Amandine Scherer
Source: Programme Television
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