Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Acropolis Cinema presents 7 *Walks with Mark Brown* and *Va, Toto!* Dir. Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré, 2017/2024. Double feature! Los Angeles premieres! ∆ *7 Walks with Mark Brown* (Dir. Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré, 2024, 103 min) Filmmaker and farmer Pierre Creton returns to the Normandy landscape so lushly portrayed in 2023's A Prince. Now, in this singularly tranquil documentary, co-directed with filmmaker-sculptor Vincent Barré, he offers an experience pleasing in its magnificent simplicity. Accompanied by a small filming crew, Creton and Barré follow paleobotanist Mark Brown across seven locations in the Pays des Caux region as he seeks out native plants from which an ancient garden could be created and explains, with the loving tenderness of a true expert, the etymology, beauty, and scientific properties of the region’s flora. Structured in two halves, *7 Walks with Mark Brown* first documents the making of these expeditions and then presents the result, a cinematic work of taxonomy and poetry, of nature and camaraderie. (NYFF) ~ Followed by: *Va, Toto!* (Dir. Pierre Creton, 2017, 94 min) The appearance of a wild boar in the life of Madeleine, an elegant and solitary septuagenarian, disrupts the lives of several neighbors in a hamlet in the Normandy region of Caux, including the faithful filmmaker Pierre Creton. From this singular situation, the artist builds an unruly ark, as resistant to the demands of an inflexible world as it is open to the boundaries of dreams, stories, and free association. A profoundly original and audacious work, *Va, Toto!* then composes a new material, mixing reality with a rare romantic and meaningful power. Insular, the beautiful cinema of Pierre Creton still plows a tiny territory to erect it into an inexhaustible mythology of desire. (tënk) TRT: 197 min