COMME UNE VAGUE / BIG GIANT WAVE

COMME UNE VAGUE / BIG GIANT WAVE
Marie-Julie Dallaire | Canada 2021 | 88' | OmenglU

The film is a visual and emotional journey into the world of music. Director Marie-Julie Dal laire approaches the power of sound, which invisibly yet omnipresently permeates our feelings, memories and bodies. Scientific insights meet poetic images: Music activates the same reward centers in the brain as chocolate, sex or drugs - and good movies.

The documentary combines intimate interviews, impressive concert moments and philosophical reflections to create an ode to music that makes waves: sometimes delicate and flowing, sometimes overwhelming and ecstatic. Big Giant Wave invites you not only to listen to music, but to feel it as a universal language that connects people across all borders.

Conceived like a cinematic wave, COMME UNE VAGUE takes us from Montreal via Sweden, Mexico and the American West Coast to Cremona, Italy, where we meet fascinating scientists and artists who, from their different points of view, illustrate the essential connection between rhythm, music, our planet, the brain, daily life and our collective humanity. A cinematic homage to music, neither a concert film nor a musical biography - a film that illuminates the diversity of music in all its facets. COMME UNE VAGUE, with its black-and-white photography and mix of sounds, definitely belongs in the movies!

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