Idéale Audience

For better or for worse, the 17th annual Micro Salon was in the spirit of the times : the number of visitors at this year’s Micro Salon shrank. In the eyes of our partners with stands at the event this was a positive thing (although our sister-organizations on the other hand are always trying to reach a broader audience). The reason ? Quite simple : fewer visitors means more quality time for discussion with the exhibitors !

Archétype lune ! Un ruban de LEDs disposé en anneau envoie de la lumière latérale à l’intérieur d’un disque plat composé d’un matériau blanc translucide. Monté sur un trépied, un axe gyroscopique permet de diriger ladite lumière dans dans toutes les directions, en même temps qu’on peut la faire varier en intensité et en colorimétrie, de chaud à très chaud. Idéale comme lumière d’ambiance ou lampe de lecture.

With Toni Erdmann, German director Maren Ade was able to make the audience in the Grand Théâtre Lumière laugh for 90 of the 160 minutes of her film. The subject of the film is the existential crisis experienced by a female senior executive sent to work in Bucharest, and we can but applaud the tour de force that ought to see the director and her actors reach the highest levels of the Awards Ceremony on the evening of 22 May. Silke Fischer and Patrick Orth (production designer and cinematographer) discuss this strange Romanian-German “feel good movie”. (FR)