Hommage à Pierre Gilles De Gennes

Directed by

Gilles Sevastos

Written by

Gilles Sevastos

Produced by

CNRS Images

Documentary, France, 2003, 52 min

Filmed in a small village in the Southern Alps where he spends his holidays with his family, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes is engaged as a man but also as a researcher through multiple interviews intercut with scenes of everyday life and some simple manipulations that allow him to explain the principles of physics on which he worked.

Debate with :

• David Quéré, head of research, Laboratory of physics and heterogeneous environments mechanicsm CNRS, École supérieure de physique chimie industrielle (ESPCI), University Paris 6 and 7