2023-12-26 17:11:00
IHe already has a book, The Snow Panther, Renaudot Prize 2019, inspired by a trip to Tibet with photographer Vincent Munier. Here it is transformed to the big screen in the form of the excellent documentary by Marie Amiguet. In their company, Sylvain Tesson travels for weeks in the Tibetan mountains in the footsteps of the legendary, solitary and sometimes unseen feline: the snow leopard.
A kind of time travel, to the music of Nick Cave, where nothing can happen for hours, except the observation of wonder and great nature. “There, I learned calmness, silence, patience, hope, you remember today. In contrast to my life as a restless traveler who travels the world to give shape to his passions. »
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Vincent Munier: “In the mountains, you have to become prey like the others”
The picture of the lookout
A silent witness to this long hunt where it is important to blend in with nature so as not to frighten the animals, the author-adventurer has learned the art of waiting: “This gives you a wonderful power that can be summed up in three words: discretion, patience, seeing (without seeing). » A Sioux tradition to have a chance to come across this snow leopard which blends perfectly with its environment.
In this “Tartar desert” minus 20 degrees, Sylvain Tesson meditates on this mythical phenomenon which, luckily, will take place at the end of the documentary. “Facing our everything-everything-now societyyou notice, we manage to believe in either-anything-not. It is very surprising. »
The Snow Pantheravailable on Arte.tv
Video. Trailer for “The Snow Panther” (images: Haut et Court).
Vincent Munier
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