Country: USA
Year: 2007
Duration: 93'
In a working-class neighbourhood of Los Angeles are set four stories of the everyday life. A Mexican graffiti artist paints a mural on the river, an Armenian camera repairman attempts to communicate with his wife after the death of their daughter, a blues guitarist who is taking care of his sick mother and a WWII veteran spends his days preparing for lunch by his wife’s grave. “The theme of communication is at the heart of The Blue Hour even though most of the film is without directly spoken dialogue. By minimizing dialogue from the script, I wanted to explore the unspoken connections between characters that don’t communicate. When they do, it is usually without talking. What excited me about this approach was the chance to make a film where subtitles would not be required to understand the chain of events linking the characters, the delicate ties between strangers of the same community.”
Biography
film director
Eric Nazarian
(Hrazdan, Armenia) emigrated to the US with his family at the age of five, graduated at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. He has worked as a freelance photojournalist and writer for different publications, including “MovieMaker Magazine,” “Creative Planet,” “Written By (Writers Guild of America Magazine),” “AIM” and “The Armenian Reporter,” receiving several awards for his work such as, the New Century Writers Award for Shine and Shutter, a short story about landmines, and the Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art Award for his screenplay Land of Plenty, a drama about the aftereffects of war on children in the Caucases. The Blue Hour is his first feature film after having made a series of shorts as a director and
screenwriter.
FILMOGRAFIA
Erotas (cm, 1999), A Quiet Passion (cm, 1999), Hooligans (cm, 2000), Requiem for a Bolshevik (cm, 2000), The Blue Hour (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Eric Nazarian
fotografia/director of photography Sam Levy
scenografia/set design Tim Grimes
costumi/costume design Keren Marting
montaggio/film editor Helen Hand, Emily Koonse
musica/music Aldo Shlaku
suono/sound Jeremy Peirson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Paul Dillon (Sal), Sarah Jones (Ethel), Karen Kondazian (Tello), Austin Marques (Neto), Alyssa Milano (Allegra), Derrick
O’Connor (Humphrey), Emily Rios (Happy), Yorick Van Wageningen (Avo), Clarence Williams III (Ridley), Baadja-Lyne Odums (la madre di Ridley/Ridley’s mother), Renn Woods (Aria), Ellen Albertini Dow (Annabella), Eric Burdon (il cantante del bar/bar singer), Sophia Malki (Heidi), Joel McKinnon Miller (Jimmy), Rachel Miller (Julie), Peter Alexander Santiago (skater)
produttore/producer Lynnette Ramirez, Brian Knappmiller
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Blue Hour LLC
fotografia/director of photography Sam Levy
scenografia/set design Tim Grimes
costumi/costume design Keren Marting
montaggio/film editor Helen Hand, Emily Koonse
musica/music Aldo Shlaku
suono/sound Jeremy Peirson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Paul Dillon (Sal), Sarah Jones (Ethel), Karen Kondazian (Tello), Austin Marques (Neto), Alyssa Milano (Allegra), Derrick
O’Connor (Humphrey), Emily Rios (Happy), Yorick Van Wageningen (Avo), Clarence Williams III (Ridley), Baadja-Lyne Odums (la madre di Ridley/Ridley’s mother), Renn Woods (Aria), Ellen Albertini Dow (Annabella), Eric Burdon (il cantante del bar/bar singer), Sophia Malki (Heidi), Joel McKinnon Miller (Jimmy), Rachel Miller (Julie), Peter Alexander Santiago (skater)
produttore/producer Lynnette Ramirez, Brian Knappmiller
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales Blue Hour LLC
