Country: Switzerland
Year: 2000
Duration: 20'


A woman and a boy much younger than she is, live in the same building. One day, their bodies collide, from cruelty to tenderness.

"Is this a game, a ritual or an unusual encounter? Will the boy's fantasy be a temptation of hers? What will be the exact moment in which they will have to stop and not go over the limit?" (Philippe Mach).

Biography

film director

Philippe Mach

Philippe Mach was born in Lausanne in 1970. Between 1986 and 1990 he followed courses held by Freddy Buache at the Cineteca Svizzera. In 1995 he graduated with a degree in Letters in Geneva and became a philosophy assistant at the same university. In 1998 he finished his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Musil. He then enrolled at ECAL in Lausanne and in 2000 received his diploma in cinematographic directing. At the moment he is working with the French speaking Swiss Television.

FILMOGRAFIA

Le droit du plus faible (cm, 1990), Que veux-tu?! (cm, 1995), La grande maison (mm, 1996-7), Tel est pris… (cm, 1997), Nocturne (cm, doc., 1998), Feu d'ombres (cm, 1999), Duel (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Philippe Mach.
Director of photography: Eric Stitzel.
Art director: Edouard Zahnd.
Editor: Simon El-Habre.
Sound: Célestin Oberlin.
Cast and characters: Monica Budde (la ragazza), Camillo de Cesare (il ragazzo).
Production company: Nicole Borgeat, Marcel Schüpbach per Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Cinema Dept. (ECAL/CI), 46, rue de l'Industrie, CH-1030 Bussigny, Switzerland, tel. +41-21-3169223, fax +41-21-3169266, e-mail sebastien.favre@dfj.vd.ch.
Foreign sales agent: Swiss Short Film Agency, Maupas 2, CH-1004 Lausanne, Switzerland, tel. +41-21-3110906, fax +41-21-3110325, e-mail agency@filmnet.ch.
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