23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

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Country: France

Year: 2005

Duration: 52'

There are many ways to live in a house, many ways to be at home, to stay with one's family. There are memories, traces, archives. Some relatives take us into their homes and the homes lead us to family movies. We returned to these homes, which are so frightening to our characters. They run away from their homes, sometimes they hedge around them as though they were a fantasy, frightened by the reality they hide.

"They asked us to make a television documentary about our parents. We decided to look at the subject through the oblique lines of the different homes of our life: the house we lived in with our parents, the house they live in now and the one they would like to live in. All this means choosing a geographical point of the subject, which leads us to Lourdes, where we were born, to Lisbon, where our father thinks of going to live, by way of Montagna Nera, near Aude, where we own a house now under construction." (A. and J-M. Larrieu)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Arnaud Larrieu

Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu (Lourdes, France, 1965 and 1966) fell in love with cinema thanks to their grandfather; as adolescents, they got into the habit of filming in Super8. Starting in the mid 1980’s, the Larrieu brothers made a few short films which won numerous recognitions at international festivals, and in 1999 debut with their first full-length film, Fin d’été. In 2003 they realized Un Homme en vrai, selected at the Torino Film Festival, followed in 2005 by Peindre ou faire l’amour (2005), in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Temps couvert (cm, 1988), Les Baigneurs (cm, 1991), Ce jour-là (cm, 1992), Bernard ou les apparitions (cm,1993), Fin d’été (1999),

Jean-Marie Larrieu

Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu (Lourdes, France, 1965 and 1966) fell in love with cinema thanks to their grandfather; as adolescents, they got into the habit of filming in Super8. Starting in the mid 1980's, the Larrieu brothers made a few short films which won numerous recognitions at international festivals, and in 1999 debut with their first full-length film, Fin d'été. In 2003 they realized Un Homme en vrai, selected at the Torino Film Festival, followed in 2005 by Peindre ou faire l'amour (2005), in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Temps couvert (cm, 1988), Les Baigneurs (cm, 1991), Ce jour-là (cm, 1992), Bernard ou les apparitions (cm,1993), Fin d'eté (1999), La Brèche de Roland (mm, 2000), Madonna à Lourdes (2001), Un homme, un vrai (2003).