12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1994
GROSSESSE NERVEUSE
by Denis Rabaglia
Country: France, Switzerland
Year: 1993
Duration: 88'
Martin, an executive in a dog food company, shudders at the thought of buying himself a doggie just to please his boss. But when he learns that Sally, a British au pair girl with whom, he had a one night stand, is pregnant with his child - and determined to bring it up atone - he is thrilled by the thought of becoming a father All he has to do is win back Sally, for whom he truly cares now. But there are pitfalls ahead, particularly in the person of his Third Worldminded mother and his barren exwife. Thanks to the support of a dotingfather buddy, a young substitute mother, and a providential midwife, among others, Martin will emerge triumphant from this false pregnancy and will have learned this lesson: that the male, when all's said and done, only plays a subordinate role in the comedy of procreation.
Biography
film director
Denis Rabaglia
A dual Swiss and Italian national, Denis Rabaglia was born in 1966 in Martigny where he now lives. He began shooting shorts and medium length Super8 movies at the age of 15. From 1984 to 1989, he made several programs for the Sierre's regional TV including five videoclips and two video shorts: Le tuer ce midi and Video ergo sum, which both won prizes at the Italian festival in Montecatini. In 1991, he was laureate of the Carat Academy in Paris, a foundation that each year sponsors young European film and television artists. It facilitated the production of his next short, Michu. Grossesse nerveuse, which he wrote and directed, is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Le tuer de midi (cm, video, 1987), Video ergo sum (cm, video, 1989), Michu (cm, 1992), Grossesse nerveuse (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Denis Rabaglia.
Director of photography: Pierluigi Zaretti.
Art director: Michel Vandestien.
Editor: Monique Dartonne.
Music: Louis Crelier.
Sound: Daniel Ollivier.
Cast: Tom Novembre, Sabine Haudepin, Isabelle Townsend, Catherine Samie, Patrick Braoudé, Jean Rougerie.
Producer: Didier Haudepin.
Production company: Bloody Mary Productions (Paris), Les Productions Crittin & Thiébaud (Geneve), France 2, TSR.
Foreign sales agent: Bloody Mary Productions, 13 rue Cassette, F75006 Paris, tel. +331454852058, fax +33145894884.
Director of photography: Pierluigi Zaretti.
Art director: Michel Vandestien.
Editor: Monique Dartonne.
Music: Louis Crelier.
Sound: Daniel Ollivier.
Cast: Tom Novembre, Sabine Haudepin, Isabelle Townsend, Catherine Samie, Patrick Braoudé, Jean Rougerie.
Producer: Didier Haudepin.
Production company: Bloody Mary Productions (Paris), Les Productions Crittin & Thiébaud (Geneve), France 2, TSR.
Foreign sales agent: Bloody Mary Productions, 13 rue Cassette, F75006 Paris, tel. +331454852058, fax +33145894884.
