Country: France
Year: 1993
Duration: 69'
It's 1978, in Châlons-sur-Marne, in Champagne. Christine, 16 years old, has dreamt of John Travolta ever since seeing him in "Saturday Night Live". Nicolas, age 17, is a very quiet, wierd young guy "flipped out" by the writings of Rimbaud and Nietzsche. As a joke, Nicolas makes a bet with one of his friends. "To pick up a girl, all you have to do is want her", he says. When he meets Christine for the first time on a bus, Nicolas is obliged to try and pick her up. For him, she's just part of the game he's playing. But for her, it's love. Her first. They make plans for the following day. Untortunately, Christine finds herself stuck working behind the counter of her parents bakery. But she will travel great lengths to keep this date with Nicolas. At an iceskating rink where some kids are throwing a birthday party, Nicolas finds himself facing his passionate date, Christine. Not only is this his first meeting with "The One", but its also the first occasion where he finds himself confronted with who he really is.
Biography
film director
Patricia Mazuy
Born in Dijon in 1960, Patricia Mazuy began her film activities by directing shorts. In Los Angeles, she met the director Agnès Varda. Varda subsequently invited her to work as trainee editor in Jacques Demy's Une chambre en ville, Patricia Mazuy worked for a time as editor, notably for Varda's Sans toit ni loi. In 1989 she wrote and directed her first feature, Peaux de vaches, which revolved around the themes of guilt and sacrifice. Selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival, the film received the George Sadoul Prize.
FILMOGRAFIA
Peaux de vaches (1989) , Travolta et moi (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Patricia Mazuy.
Screenplay: Yves Thomas, Patricia Mazuy.
Director of photography: Eric Gautier.
Art director: Louis Soubrier.
Editor: Bénédicte Brunet.
Sound: Didier Saïn.
Cast and characters: Leslie Azzoulai (Christine), Julien Guerin (Nicolas), Hélène Eichers (Karine), Hélène Hameloot (Anne), Thomas Klotz (Jerome).
Concezione artistica della serie: Chantal Poupaud.
Director of Production: Charles Tibie.
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.
Foreign sales agent: M5, 168 rue Saint Carles, 75015 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45545957, fax +33-1-45542271.
Screenplay: Yves Thomas, Patricia Mazuy.
Director of photography: Eric Gautier.
Art director: Louis Soubrier.
Editor: Bénédicte Brunet.
Sound: Didier Saïn.
Cast and characters: Leslie Azzoulai (Christine), Julien Guerin (Nicolas), Hélène Eichers (Karine), Hélène Hameloot (Anne), Thomas Klotz (Jerome).
Concezione artistica della serie: Chantal Poupaud.
Director of Production: Charles Tibie.
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.
Foreign sales agent: M5, 168 rue Saint Carles, 75015 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45545957, fax +33-1-45542271.
