Country: France
Year: 2005
Duration: 100
Alex is a strong and independent young woman who wants to
gain custody of her son Xavier. She makes a living dividing her
time between working in a supermarket and on a construction
site. She is struggling to restructure a broken-down house in the
suburbs of an isolated village in the hopes of living there one
day with her son. The walls she is building are a metaphor of
the existence Alex is putting together piece by piece, as she tries
to put some stability in her life.
"Alex can be irritating… I love characters who build themselves
bit by bit. I wanted Alex to seduce me. In order for her to
surprise me she had to start from far away. If she had seduced
me right off it wouldn't have served any purpose. I look
indulgently on my characters. I let the moments in which Alex
seemed irritating slide, so she could evolve. […] The desires of
the character and the desires of the actress are reciprocally
humored during the entire process of making the film.
This desire to create the character was fed by a year of
preparatory work and documentation." (J. Alcala)
Biography
film director
José Alcala
José Alcala has been an architect designer for 10 years. Since 1987, and his first shortlength feature Via Ventimiglia,he has dedicated all his time to cinema. In 1992 he founded, with two fellow directors, the Films du fleuve company. Meanwhile he kept on writing and in 1996 he left Paris to go back to his roots in the landscapes of south of France. That's where he imagined the scenario of his first feature film, Alex.
FILMOGRAFIA
Via
Ventimiglia (cm, 1987), Case
départ (cm,
1991), La
Visite
(cm, 1997), Mémoire de La Paillade
(cm, 2000), Alex (2005).