Country: France
Year: 1994
Duration: 57' (versi


Southwest France 1962. The "Evian Agreement" has ratified Algerian independance. OAS, the French rightwing terrorist organisation steps up its bombing campaign. Never before has this conflict reached such a level of intensity. Henri arrives at boarding school in a sleepy provincial town. Scandal soon follows hard on his heels. It's the last term before graduation and it looks to be a long hot summer. The arrival of this hate-driven youth rocks the school's quiet everyday life. Forced into exile by the conflict at home, Henri believes that Algerian independance is treachery and anyone who supports it is fair game. Until Henri's arrival, the civil war had not yet touched this community. It had succeeded in shettering itself from the outside world. With the violent passion of his personality, Henri forces each character to confront their desires as well as their true identities.

Biography

film director

André Téchiné

André Téchiné is a fifty-one-year-old native of the southwest of France. His first film, Paulina s'en va, already marked his extremely personal film career. His original mark would re-appear in his following film, Barocco, an esthetic exercise full of visual flash and cruelty. His ambitious Les soeurs Bronte proved not to be a successful. His career was renewed from the time when he won the prize as best director at Cannes in 1985 to when he made Rendez-vous, a drama of desperate and mysterious passion as well as when he made his next film, Les innocents. After four years of silence, he made J'embrasse pas, a nocturnal and disillusioned film; Ma saison préférée, a bitter family chronicle; and finally Les roseaux sauvages.

FILMOGRAFIA

Paulina s'en va (1969), Souvenirs d'en France (1974), Barocco (1976), Les soeurs Bronte (1978), Hotel des Amériques (1981), La matiouette (mm, 1983), Rendez-vous (1985), Le lieu du crime (1986) , Les innocentes (1987), J'embrasse pas (1991), Ma saison préférée (1993), Les roseaux sauvages (1994), Le chéne et le roseau (1994).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: André Téchiné.
Director of photography: Jeanne Lapoirie.
Art director: Pierre Solula.
Editor: Martine Giordano.
Sound: Jean-Paul Mugel.
Cast and characters: Elodie Bouchez, (Maïté), Gaël Morel (François), Stéphane Rideau (Serge), Frédéric Gorny (Henri), Michèle Moretti (signora Alvarez), Jacques Nolot (signor Morelli), Éric Kreikenmayer, Nathalie Vignes.
Concezione artistica della serie: Chantal Poupaud.
Director of Production: Jean-Jacques Albert.
Producer: Georges Benayoun, Paul Rozenberg per IMA Prod.
Production company: IMA Productions, 11 rue Christiani, F-75018 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-42230101, fax +33-1-42625707; Les Films Alain Sarde, 40 avenue Hoche, 750008 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-40760694, fax +33-1-40760693.
Vendita all'estero (versione televisiva): M5, 168 rue Saint Carles, 75015 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45545957, fax +33-1-45542271.
Foreign sales agent: WMF, 8 rue Lincoln, 75008 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-42258420, fax +33-1-40750576.
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