Country: France
Year: 1988
Duration: 7'
A presentday couple, in an empty room in an apartment in the Parisian suburbs. They speak about love, about truth and illusion, and above all about vision and points of view Are these three dancers whose choreographed movements across the rooms parquet floor are frozen into the same spatial relationships and positions as the three workmen in Gustave Caillebotte's Les raboteurs de parquets, painted in 1875 only an illusion?
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: Cyril Collard.
Music: Thierry Lanciano.
Cast: Angelin Preljocaj.
Production company: Musée d'Orsay, La Sept, Opus 10.19.
Foreign sales agent: Musée d'Orsay, Opus 10.19, 62 rue de Lille, Paris 75007, tel. +33140494868.
Music: Thierry Lanciano.
Cast: Angelin Preljocaj.
Production company: Musée d'Orsay, La Sept, Opus 10.19.
Foreign sales agent: Musée d'Orsay, Opus 10.19, 62 rue de Lille, Paris 75007, tel. +33140494868.