Yet another incongouus experience with the festival MIMI in the ruins of the Hospital Caroline, at the top of one of the hills of the Frioul Island. It was used as a quarantine spot until WWII, when it was bombed and subsequently abandoned.
It all starts with the shuttle from the Vieux Port
Another look at Kader Attia’s artwork on the Digue du large, before the shuttle zooms us out of the harbour…
The Chateau d’If
A mysterious walk in front of a few grand but abandoned buildings…
and here we are at the Hopital Caroline, national monument « en cours de restoration »…. and happily used by MIMI
The bar lighting
Excellent IRAKA
…and the « cherry on the cake »: suddenly something very strange appears in the temple along with a guy wearing red boots and red santiags, who looks a lot like Robert Guediguian’s fetiche actor Jean-Pierre Garroussin and a great big camera on those rails, like a movie camera…….turns out Robert Guediguian is filming a scene of his last film, in which his fetiche actress Ariane Ascaride accomplishes her dream of signing a cabaret song in hopital Caroline (Robert Guediguian’s world is centred in Marseille and has loads of references to local spots and traditions, I loved them before we ever lived in Marseille as they realy have universal appeal, but have a blast now…) and we are asked to play the cheering crowd, no problem with that!!
Robert Guediguian introducing the scene
live…..
awesome!! Arian and jean-Pierre were as good as always and I think we did very well as a crowd… there was no second take although we did ask for it!
Back home in the magic night of Marseille’s harbour
