Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 82'
GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH “I wanted to make a musical – where people do spontaneously break into song and dance as though it were the most normal thing in the world – but set it in the world I knew. The world of Boston, of young people, of jazz musicians. A world where no one says what they mean, where a romance can end with a cell phone call. I wanted to make a movie about people who could only communicate through music. I approached a lot of the film as though it were a documentary, and to me that’s not so far off from what the musical – so artificial, yes, but so concerned with documenting musical performances – is all about.”
Guy and Madeline have been engaged for three months. He is an up-and-coming trumpet player in Boston; she is an introverted, unemployed girl. When Guy meets Elena on a crowded subway, his story with Madeline seems to have come to a dead end. Thus, Madeline finds herself having to put her life in order. She moves to a new apartment, goes job hunting and dates other men. Everything changes when, during a trip to New York, she meets a Frenchman named Paul.
Biography
film director
Damien Chazelle
Damien Chazelle (USA, 1985) grew up between Paris and Princeton (New Jersey), where he studied to become a jazz drummer. In 2003, he received awards at America’s Best High School Jazz Competition and the Dunellen Invitational Jazz Festival. He shot his first short film Mon Père in 2004, and I Thought I Heard Him Say and Kiwi the following year. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) began as a short for his thesis at Harvard and turned into his debut feature, presented in several festivals, including Tribeca and the Torino Film Festival. He won the Sundance Short Film Jury Award for U.S. Fiction in 2013 with Whiplash, and the Gran Jury Prize as well as the Audience Award in 2014 for the feature-length version.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mon père (cm, 2004), I Thought I Heard Him Say (cm, 2005), Kiwi (cm, 2006), Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009), Whiplash (cm, 2013), Whiplash (2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay
Damien Chazelle
musica/music
Justin Hurwitz
suono/sound
Geof Thurber
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jason Palmer (Guy), Desiree Garcia (Madeline), Sandha Khin (Elena), Frank Garvin (Frank), Andre Hayward (Andre), Alma Prelec (Alma), Bernard Chazelle (Paul), Eli Gerstenlauer (Eli), Keith Gross-Hill (Keith), Jerry Quinn (Jerry), Maureen McCarthy (Maureen), Willie Rodriguez (Willie), Zerek Palmer (Zerek)
produttore/producer
Jasmine McGlade
coproduttore/coproducer
Mihai Dinulescu
Damien Chazelle
musica/music
Justin Hurwitz
suono/sound
Geof Thurber
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jason Palmer (Guy), Desiree Garcia (Madeline), Sandha Khin (Elena), Frank Garvin (Frank), Andre Hayward (Andre), Alma Prelec (Alma), Bernard Chazelle (Paul), Eli Gerstenlauer (Eli), Keith Gross-Hill (Keith), Jerry Quinn (Jerry), Maureen McCarthy (Maureen), Willie Rodriguez (Willie), Zerek Palmer (Zerek)
produttore/producer
Jasmine McGlade
coproduttore/coproducer
Mihai Dinulescu
TFF
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