14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
European Perspectives 1996 - France
PARFAIT AMOUR!
by Catherine Breillat
Dunkerque, a mysterious and austere town, is a port favourable to lovers' wandering. Frédérique and Christophe are starting their love story. He is twentyeight, she is thirtyseven (divorced with two children). A rather classic middleclasslooking woman. She is surprised first, but she finally believes in their story. Then the man's new personality emerges: selfish, tortured, drifting off. In other words, a young man. Until the evening when...
Biography
film director
Catherine Breillat
Novelist, screenwriter and film director, Catherine Breillat has written or co-written the scripts of La pelle (directed by Liliana Cavani), L'araignée de satin (Jacques Baratier), E la nave va (Federico Fellini), Zanzibar (Christine Pascal) and Police (Maurice Pialat). Her novels and plays include: L'homme facile, Le silence après…, Les vétements de la mer, Le soupirail, Tapage nocturne and 36 Fillette.
FILMOGRAFIA
Une vraie jeune fille (1976), Tapage nocturne (1979), 36 Fillette (1988), Sale comme un ange (1991), Parfait Amour! (1996).
Cast
& Credits
Director of photography: Laurent Dailland.
Art director: Françoise Dupertuis.
Editor: Agnès Guillemot.
Sound: Jean Minondo.
Cast and characters: Isabelle Renauld (Frédérique), Francis Renaud (Christophe), Laura Saglio (Emmanuelle), Alain Soral (Philippe), Delphine de Malerbe (Valérie de La Tournelle).
Production company: Dacia Films, 3 rue de Liège, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +331-40234810, fax +33140829701 La Sept Cinéma.
Foreign sales agent: Flach Pyramide International, 5 rue Richepanse, 75008 Paris, France, tel. +33142960101, fax +33140200221.