14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
European Perspectives 1996 - France
Nénette et Boni
by Claire Denis
Country: France
Year: 1996
Duration: 103'
Boni, short for Boniface, is a 19yearold pizza chef in the port of Marseilles. Since the death of his mother, he refuses to have anything to do with his father, Felix, a lampshade dealer who has raised Boni's 15yearold sister, Nénette. Boni gives himself up to his little routine, the pizzas, the neighborhood reveries, and an unrequited love that makes him feel even more lonely. Holed up in the dampness of his nest, he is waiting for his desire to prevail. Boni daydreams. One day Nénette climbs over the wall of her boarding school and turns up on his doorstep, taking over the fetid dump he inherited from their mother his refuge, his makebelieve stronghold.
Biography
film director
Claire Denis
Born in Paris in 1948, Claire Denis came to the cinema as an assistant. In 1988, she made her first feature, Chocolat, which was partially based on her childhood in Cameroon. Nénette et Boni won the last Locarno Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Chocolat (1988), Man no Run (doc., 1989), Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (in collaborazione con Serge Daney per la serie Tv Cinéma de notre temps, 1989), S'en fout la mort (Al diavolo la morte, 1990), Keep it for Yourself (1991), Ni une, ni deux (Tv, 1991), La robe a cerceaux (Tv, 1992), J'ai pas sommeil (1993), Nénette et Boni (1996).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Claire Denis.
Screenplay: Claire Denis, JeanPol Fargeau.
Director of photography: Agnès Codard.
Editor: Yann Dedet.
Music: Tìndersticks.
Sound: JeanLouis Ughetto.
Cast and characters: Grégoire Colin (Boni), Alice Houri (Nénette), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (la panettiera), Jacques Nolot (il signor Luminaire), Alex Descas (il ginecologo).
Production company: Dacia Films, 3 rue de Liège, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33140234810, fax +331-40829701.
Foreign sales agent: Flach Pyramide International, 5 rue Richepanse, 75008 Paris, France, tel. +33142960220, fax +331-40200551.
Screenplay: Claire Denis, JeanPol Fargeau.
Director of photography: Agnès Codard.
Editor: Yann Dedet.
Music: Tìndersticks.
Sound: JeanLouis Ughetto.
Cast and characters: Grégoire Colin (Boni), Alice Houri (Nénette), Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (la panettiera), Jacques Nolot (il signor Luminaire), Alex Descas (il ginecologo).
Production company: Dacia Films, 3 rue de Liège, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33140234810, fax +331-40829701.
Foreign sales agent: Flach Pyramide International, 5 rue Richepanse, 75008 Paris, France, tel. +33142960220, fax +331-40200551.
