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Why this film? « I have always been interested in the question of male identity.
I think that men hide behind a tough facade, and that fear of letting
down their guard prevents them from expressing their emotions or
engaging in intimate conversations with other men. The result is
that they can only share their intimate sides with women, and then
in relationships often fraught with conflict. What does it tell us about the question of male identity? « I think that the power, the sincerity and the frankness of the participants captured in the film is quite unheard of. Take, for example, the two participants who admit that they were scared of being prisoners of the female sex. Or the other character who writes to his mother to admit his feeling of being overpowered and the effects it has had in terms of his inability to respond to the women’s wants and needs. Men speaking in this way express what many others experience in their day-to-day lives, without being aware of it, or without being able to fully articulate it. Basically, our society worships the typically masculine values of competition, power and force. » And what about women? « This film shows that men are also able to express their most intimate thoughts and to communicate them. I think women will be sensitive to that, because they also suffer from men's inability to understand themselves and the masculine condition. Desert Wind may be a film with men who need to be among other men to discuss the problems men face; but it also shows that this process can effect the whole range of social connections, particularly those between men and women. » |
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After its public successES in SWITZERLAND, Belgium, AT FILM FORUM IN NEW-YORK and IN QUEBEC, Desert Wind WILL BE AVALAIBLE ON DVD. DESERT WIND on DVD The DVD is avalaible, in a co-publishing with the Canadian National Film Board. The DVD includes an interview with Guy CORNEAU, Canadian psychoanalist, writer and lecturer. Interviews also with group leader Alexis Burger and director François Kohler. Film and interviews are subtitled in English and German. TO ORDER THE DVD:SF 35.- (Including VAT 7.6%) + SF 5.-- postage /SF 10.- for Europe. To order from SWITZERLAND, click here. To order from EUROPE, click here. For any other informations, write to info@lesouffledudesert.com. CANADA, USA and the rest of the world :
With the support of Guy CORNEAU November 2006, psychiatrist, writer and lecturer Guy CORNEAU took part in a series of events organised along DESERT WIND's DVD release in Switzerland and Belgium.
USA and CANADA : NEW-YORK, Desert Wind was screened at the Film Forum in February 2006
“Tracks thirteen men who have been brought together for a two-week trek in the Tunisian desert…the true subject matter is the men’s worries, their thoughts on relationships, and, in general, the psyche of the modern male…Watching the subjects’ emotional inhibitions get gradually peeled away is often fascinating.” New York Magazine “As the rigors of the trek become more grueling, the revelations grow more intimate. In the funniest scene, the men take turns stripping naked and talking about their bodies…DESERT WIND manages to take us to a seldom-visited place: the hidden corners of the straight male mind.” Dana Stevens, The New York Times “Led by a Swiss psychotherapist, the men confront their emotions and explode our beer-and-football notions of male bonding…their newfound openness with each other and themselves makes for funny, moving and riveting viewing.” Steve Gartland, The L Magazine “Fascinating.” Jan Stuart, Newsday |
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