12° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1994
TROP DE BONHEUR
by Cédric Kahn
Country: France
Year: 1994
Duration: 85'
Expelled a few weeks from final high school exams, and condemned to take a technical certificate, Valérie wanders through the village with her best friend, Mathilde. They go for a swim in a nearby lake along with Kamel and his pal Didier. The four teenagers skim and spy on each other while the Midi sun beats down. Kamel has eyes only for Valérie. Mathilde has a crush on Didier. The group breaks up. The girls come across Brahim, Kamel's elder brother who drives around aimIessly with his friends Ahmed, Thierry and Solange. The girls are talked into the car to go dancing. Mathilde suggests they hold the party in her parents' villa, as they are away. They are later joined by Kamel and Didier. On foot. Intoxicated by music and alcohol, minds and bodies heat up. After a long night in the course of which new relationships open up, nothing wilI ever be the same...
"This film show how much one is conditioned by the origins and environment. Each one of the four main characters of the film fights against this predestination, refusing to accept it. This is what is beautiful about adolescente, the time when everything is stilI possible. We also wanted to tackIe the problem of integration, through the dispute between the two brothers of Arab origin. This story is that of difference within difference." (Cédric Kahn and Ismaël Ferroukhi).
Biography
film director
Cédric Kahn
Cédric
Kahn (Paris, 1966),
director and
screenwriter, debuted with the short film Nadir (1989)
and in 1993 directed the full-length
film Bar des rails, which was chosen for Venice. He
then shot Bonheur
(1994), an episode of the series by ARTE, Tous les
garçons et les filles
de leur âge (entitled Trop de bonheur in
the film version) and in
1998 directed L'Ennui, the film
transposition of the homonymous novel by
Alberto Moravia. His next films were Roberto Succo (2001),
inspired by a
true crime that happened in Italy during the 1980s, and Red
Lights (2004),
based on a novel by Georges Simenon.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nadir (cm, 1989), Les
Dernières heures
du millénaire (cm, 1990), Bar des rails
(1991), Bonheur (TV,
1994) Trop de bonheur (1994), Culpabilité
zero (TV, 1996), L'Ennui
(La noia, 1998), Roberto Succo (id.,
2001), Feux
Rouges (Luci nella notte, 2004), L'Avion
(2005).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Cédric Kahn.
Screenplay: Cédric Kahn, IsmaéI Ferroukhi.
Director of photography: Antoine Roch.
Art director: Philippe Combastel.
Editor: Yann Dedet, Nathalie Hubert.
Sound: Stéphane Thiébaut.
Cast and characters: Estelle Perron (Valerie), Caroline Trousselard (Mathilde), Malek Bechar (Kamel), Didier Borga (Didier), Naguime Bendidi (Ahmed), Emmanuel Gautier (Thierry), Laetitia Palermo (Solange), Jean Raitiere (nonno di Valerie), Roger Janody (padre di Valerie), Arlette Sophie Bertrand (madre di Valerie).
Concezione artistica della serie: Chantal Poupaud.
Director of Production: Frederic Bal.
Producer: Georges Benayoun, Paul Rozenberg per IMA Prod.
Production company: IMA Productions, 11 rue Christiani, 75018 Paris , France, tel. +33-1-42230101, fax +33-1-42625707.
Vendita all'estero (versione televisiva): MS, 168 rue Saint Carles, 75015 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45545957, fax +33-1-45542271.
Foreign sales agent: WMF 8 rue Lincoln, 75008 Paris, tel. +33-1-42258420, fax +33-1-40750576.
Screenplay: Cédric Kahn, IsmaéI Ferroukhi.
Director of photography: Antoine Roch.
Art director: Philippe Combastel.
Editor: Yann Dedet, Nathalie Hubert.
Sound: Stéphane Thiébaut.
Cast and characters: Estelle Perron (Valerie), Caroline Trousselard (Mathilde), Malek Bechar (Kamel), Didier Borga (Didier), Naguime Bendidi (Ahmed), Emmanuel Gautier (Thierry), Laetitia Palermo (Solange), Jean Raitiere (nonno di Valerie), Roger Janody (padre di Valerie), Arlette Sophie Bertrand (madre di Valerie).
Concezione artistica della serie: Chantal Poupaud.
Director of Production: Frederic Bal.
Producer: Georges Benayoun, Paul Rozenberg per IMA Prod.
Production company: IMA Productions, 11 rue Christiani, 75018 Paris , France, tel. +33-1-42230101, fax +33-1-42625707.
Vendita all'estero (versione televisiva): MS, 168 rue Saint Carles, 75015 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-45545957, fax +33-1-45542271.
Foreign sales agent: WMF 8 rue Lincoln, 75008 Paris, tel. +33-1-42258420, fax +33-1-40750576.
