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SEM, THE INCISIVE CARICATURIST

SEM, LE CARICATURISTE INCISIF

By Marc FAYE

Documentary - Completed 2016

Everyone knows Maxim's but no one knows the artist behind this logo. Sem is lively, lucid, ruthless. His incisive caricatures survive as unique documents from the Belle Epoque, the Great War and the Roaring Twenties. This film explores his universe

- Year of production
- 2016
- Genres
- Documentary, Historical
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 68 mn
- Director(s)
- Marc FAYE
- Writer(s)
- Marc FAYE
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-A6A3-0000-X-0000-0000-C
- Producer(s)
- Marc FAYE (NOVANIMA PRODUCTIONS), Jean-François LE CORRE (Vivement Lundi ! )
- Synopsis
- He is small, elegant, his face is sharp and his thin mouth is marked with a fold of irony. His discretion allows him to interfere in all environments. Describing SEM is already talking about his character, his psychology. He is lively, lucid, ruthless. He is interested in the quintessence of the beings he meets, whether they are famous personalities of the Belle Epoque Paris or people from the popular classes of his hometown, Périgueux. Whether drawing or devoting himself to literature, the sharpness of his gaze makes SEM a sensitive seismograph of his time. His work led him to evolve among the great figures of his time: the writers Proust, Colette, Rostand, the dancer Joséphine Baker, the aviator Santos Dumont, the creator Coco Chanel, etc ... His caricatures survive as unique documents , witnesses' markers that keep the freshness and the vibration that this incisive caricaturist gave him.