Le Kiosque (2021)

Title: The Kiosk

Original Title: Le Kiosque

Release Date: 2021-10-06

Status: Released

Rating: 7.3/10 (from 7 votes)

Language: FR

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Les Films de l’œil sauvage

In her debut feature, Alexandra Pianelli captures the unique world in and around her family’s Paris newsstand, presenting a film diary that lovingly documents her time working there. Sequestered behind the cramped counter, Pianelli films the world as it passes before her with a boundless sense of curiosity and compassion. iPhone or GoPro strategically set up before her, she records idiosyncratic interactions with charming regulars who drop by for their newspapers and a chat, or the lost passers-by simply looking for directions. Le Kiosque is a tender study of humanity, as well as a bittersweet sketch of physical media’s dying days as the newsstand’s future becomes increasingly unclear.