Ciné-concert : Monte là-dessus par Julien Coulon et Frédéric Pérol

Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor - Screened at Locarno Film Festival, 2021 - Fiction - United States - 1923 - 67’ - B&W - vostfr (intertitles) - Carlotta Films - With Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Anna Townsend, Roy Brooks, Richard Daniels

A man decides to leave his town to seek his fortune in Los Angeles. His hopes are quickly dashed: the only job he finds is as a modest salesman in a department store. He then leads his family to believe that he holds a high-level position. One day, deciding to play his last card, he suggests to his boss staging a publicity stunt: the scaling of the store's facade by one of his friends, a skyscraper climbing specialist. A chain of events leads him to climb the building himself…

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Fred C. Newmeyer was an American actor and director, born in 1881 in Central City, Colorado, and died in 1967 in Woodland Hills. Before working in cinema, he was a professional baseball player.

Sam Taylor was an American director, screenwriter and producer, born in 1895 in New York, and died in 1958 in Santa Monica, California.

Julien Coulon is a trained guitarist. His repertoire ranges from ancient, oriental and Celtic music to contemporary music. A specialist in plucked strings, he has produced several albums and performs regularly in concert. Julien also teaches in two MJCs (Saint-Cloud and Bourg-La-Reine) and presents his various instruments at the Cité de la Musique in Paris.

Musician (keyboard, electric bass), Frédéric Pérol is particularly interested in the link between music and images. Since 2009, he has composed the soundtrack for multiple audiovisual projects for the Musée du Louvre, Arte, France Télévisions, Les Films d’Ici, the Mémorial de la Shoah, etc. Passionate about pedagogy, he teaches piano and music theory creatively, adapting to each individual. It is therefore quite naturally that the desire to create cine-concert shows – especially for young children – came to him.