Country: France
Year: 2007
Duration: 71'
She came out of nowhere. One day, she was just there. Or maybe I came out of nowhere. Anyway she was there and I was with her. In her apartment somewhere in Taipei with this baby. Waiting for the time when we stop wondering why. And this time comes. Quiet. Warm. We get closer. And closer. It’s pouring rain outside. Like it is never going to stop. “I went to Taipei to do the spotting for Monstre, my first movie, that I eventually shot in Paris, and I met Lu Yi Ching there. I was hit by the difference between the character she plays in Tsai Ming Liang’s movies, who is always the slightly lunatic and unsexy old mother, and the reality: she is much younger, much more beautiful and feminine. Then she confessed that she would like to do something else, to play a woman in love, who does her hair and wears nice dresses. This very simple and luminous desire moved me. I decided to ask her to do a film with me, based on that and she said yes.”
Biography
film director
Antoine Barraud
Antoine Barraud (1972) in 2004 made his first short, Monstre, which participated at numerous international festivals. He then directed other films, part documentary and part experimental, including portraits of filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Shuji Terayama and Koji Wakamatsu. Song (2007) and La forêt des songes (2010) were both presented at the Torino Film Festival, where, in 2011, another film of his was screened, Son of a Gun, which he co-directed with Claire Doyon. He has participated as a producer in many projects including the film by Stephen Dwoskin Age Is..., which is participating at this year’s Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Monstre (cm, 2004), Déluge (mm, 2005), Song (2007), Monstre, numéro deux (mm, 2007), River of Anger (mm, doc., 2007), Danièle Gould (doc., 2007), Plug (cm, 2009), La forêt des songes (mm, doc., 2010), La montagne de la terreur (cm, doc., 2010), Les maisons de feu (cm, doc., 2010), Son of a Gun (coregia/codirector Claire Doyon, cm, 2011), Les gouffres (2012).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Antoine Barraud
fotografia/director of photography Tristan Clamorgan, Sébastien Koeppel
montaggio/film editor Anne Souriau
suono/sound Cédric Deloche
interpreti/cast Antoine Barraud, Lu Yi Ching, Lin Yuan Shang, Claire Harsany, Nobuhiro Suwa, Nathalie Boutefeu
produttore/producer Sébastien Fonséca, Cédric Walter, Gaëlle Jones
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Château-Rouge Production
fotografia/director of photography Tristan Clamorgan, Sébastien Koeppel
montaggio/film editor Anne Souriau
suono/sound Cédric Deloche
interpreti/cast Antoine Barraud, Lu Yi Ching, Lin Yuan Shang, Claire Harsany, Nobuhiro Suwa, Nathalie Boutefeu
produttore/producer Sébastien Fonséca, Cédric Walter, Gaëlle Jones
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Château-Rouge Production