16° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Short Film Competition 1998

En désespoir de cause

by Vincent Loury
Country: France
Year: 1998
Duration: 25'


The glass tower housing the offices of the Establishment Society. In this gray, slightly inhuman environment, the paths of four characters with four very different work relationships cross each other at a comic pace.

"Today, looking for job is as hard as looking for the Holy Grail: something vain and improbable. It takes a bit of heroism to keep one's guard up. I wanted to talk about this heroism, in a funny way" (V. Loury).

Biography

film director

Vincent Loury

Vincent Loury (Paris, 1962) graduated in Psychology in 1983, and until 1985 was a theatrical actor (working with Antoine Vitez, amongst others). In 1988 he followed a stage in cinematographic directing at the Arscipro. He has done theatrical directing, written screenplays for television and produced numerous commercials.

FILMOGRAFIA

Le Double (cm, 1988), Mortelle envie (cm, 1992), Le Sapin de grès (tv, cm, 1995), Ici, là, ou ailleurs (cm, 1996), En desespoir de cause... (cm, 1998).

Cast

& Credits

Director and screenplay: Vincent Loury.
Director of photography: Emanuel Soyer.
Art director: Caroline Rossignol.
Sound: Jérôme Ayasse.
Music: Xavier Delisle.
Editor: Valérie Deseine.
Cast and characters: Jean-Marie Galey (Antoine Lepeyre), Olivia Brunaux (Isabelle), Arnaud Viard (Patrick Aramon), Féodor Atkine (Philippe Huguet), Morgane Yaiche (Marie), Dimitri Radochevitch (Georges), Joseph Malerba (Léon), Jo Dourmerg (Louis), Stéphane Comby (Martin), Rosita Fernandez (la segretaria).
Producer: Anne Cohen-Solal. Produzione e vendita all'estero: Lazennec Tout Court, 5 rue Darcet, 75017 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-53044121, fax +33-1-44900292, e-mail info@besom.co.uk
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