10° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1992
Les nuits fauves
by Cyril Collard
Jean is thirtyyearold. He lives a violent and animated love story with Laura, a seventeenyearold girl. He throws himself into life without being able to choose and to say not. But he has his wings clipped: he's HIV positive. Laura's romantic passion and the loading menace make him openminded to others and world. He learns how to love. A hymn to life and those who devours it.
Biography
film director
Cyril Collard
(Paris, France, 1957-1993) after studying math and physics, changed his interests and moved to Puerto Rico, where he began a career as an author. After returning to France, with Sylvain Rondy and René-Marc Bini he created the rock group CYR and began working in film as an assistant to Maurice Pialat for Loulou (1980), Ai nostri amori (To Our Loves, 1993), and Police (1985), in which he also played a small role, and as a documentary filmmaker for television and the author of musical videos (in particular, for the Franco-Algerian group Carte de Séjour). In 1987, he published his first novel Condamné amour a short while after discovering he was HIV-positive, and three years later, he wrote the autobiographical Les Nuits Fauves, which later became his only fiction feature film. Les Nuits Fauves (Savage Nights, 1992), won four César awards and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film. Previously, he had made a short film with the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, Les raboteurs de Caillebotte (1988), and created the TV series Le Lyonnais, directing one episode. He died of AIDS at 35 years of age, three days before the César ceremony which honored him posthumously.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Baule-Dakar (doc., 1981), Grand huit (mm, 1982), Alger la bianche (cm, 1985), Les raboteurs de Caillebotte (cm, 1988), Les nuits fauves (1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director of photography: Bernard Fau.
Art director: Jacky Macchi.
Editor: Lise Beaulieu.
Music: lnxs, Dave Stewart, Marc Ogeret, The Pogues, Los Chungitos, Vitali, New Model Army, Damla, El Lebrijano, Noir Désir.
Musica originale: interpretata da RenéMarc Bini e da Cyril Collard.
Sound: Michel Bretez, Dominique Hennequin.
Cast and characters: Cyril Collard (Jean), Romane Bohringer (Laura), Carlos Lopez (Samy), Corine Blue (la madre di Laura), Claude Winter (la madre di Jean), RenéMarc Bini (Marc), Maria Schneider (Noria), Clémentine Célarié (Marianne) Laura Favali (Karine).
Director of Production: JeanFrédéric Samie.
Production company: Nella Banfi, BanFilmTer, 3 Rue Barbette, 75003 Parigi, Francia, tel. 44592070, fax 44592081.
Foreign sales agent: JGC International, 24 Avenue Charles De Gaulle, 92200 Neuilly/Seine, Francia, tel. 46404430, fax 46243728.