Kiosk employs a classic form of immersion documentary: in a limited space, witnesses of the present time compose a micro-society. But this place - a newspaper kiosk - is not the only thing that makes the film. It is the director who gives it its density. Her family ties to this business are decisive. It is through the director that the portraits of the regular customers are deepened. It is through her that we discover the intimacy of the place and that we understand the family relationship to this business. The camera, handheld, subjective, sometimes fixed, captures the times and the programmed end of an economy, that of newspapers and paper magazines. Kiosk, against a background of survival and disappearance, preserves shared moments and a little of what makes the beauty of the "human comedy".

Jean-Marie Barbe
Producer and Co-founder of the États Généraux du Film Documentaire de Lussas