DES HOMMES

A few prostitutes tell their story. Behind the big windows, they arrange
their pillows, they sit down and wait. Their stories tell of men in search
of something. Nice men, those who even show up on Christmas Eve
and the lonely ones, who sometimes fall in love. The women are well
acquainted with love and they know how to keep it at a distance when
they work, because a client can never be anything but a client. Their
words paint the picture of a world that lives in a few square meters and
that shuts down at 6:30 p.m., when all around them the city is working
and growing.

“I wanted to make a film that adapts itself to the rhythm of the waiting
in these places and that could find the right relationship between
exhibition and modesty, between what is natural and its representation.
Something both delicate and cruel. A film that touches a sort of
intimacy and that, in certain moments, knows how to leave us on the
threshold, inside a tent. All this has brought to life a film that is both
open, like the big, airy space I think I have left to the spectator, and
closed, like a door we shut in order to remain alone for a moment.”

regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing Khristine Gillard
fotografia/cinematography Sébastien Koeppel
musica/music Prairie
suono/sound Manu de Boissieu
produttore/producer Thierry Zamparutti
produzione/production Ambiances...Asbl
coproduzione/coproduction Tabula Rasa, Alea Jacta, PBC Pictures
vendita all’estero/ world sales Ambiances...Asbl