Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 100'
bus palladium Paris, the 1980s. Lucas, Manu, Philippe, Jacob and Mario are childhood friends. They are talented musicians and dream of making a name for themselves in the world of music; they pass their evenings at the Bus Palladium. When their band, Lust, starts to become successful they find themselves having to come to terms with the aspirations and needs of the single members, which threatens the solidity of the band. When Laura arrives, she, too, weakens the delicate balance of the group. “I think that it’s very complicated to talk about the world of music in a film. To show how you have to work as a group until you achieve the pleasure of playing together live in front of an audience. This was the true challenge of the mise-en-scène and not just part of the screenplay. The desire to make music comes from the wish to lay bare your dreams and the film shows this passage from the dream that destiny is something which is eternally shared to the realization that, instead, it is an individual path you must walk.”
Biography
film director
Christopher Thompson
Christopher Thompson (New York, NY, Usa, 1966) debuted as an actor in the TV series La revolution française (1989) by Robert Enrico, and later participated in numerous films, including Everybody’s Fine (1990) by Giuseppe Tornatore, The Groundhogs (1993) by Elie Chouraqui, Jefferson in Paris (1995) by James Ivory and A los que aman (1998) by Isabel Coixet. In 1999 he began his career as a screenwriter with the film Season’s Beatings (1999), directed by his mother Danièle Thompson. He screenwrote the three feature lenght films by Thierry Klifa among them Family Hero (2006). Bus Palladium marks his debut as a director.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Bus Palladium (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Christopher Thompson
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Christopher Thompson, Thierry Klifa
fotografia/cinematography
Rémy Chevrin
montaggio/film editing
Célia Lafitedupont
scenografia/production design
Emmanuelle Duplay
costumi/costume design
Emmanuelle Youchnovski
musica/music
Yarol Poupaud
suono/sound
Cyril Moisson, Roman Dymny, Franck Desmoulins, Daniel Sobrino
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Marc-André Grondin (Lucas), Arthur Dupont (Manu), Abraham Belaga (Philippe), Jules Pélissier (Jacob), François Civil (Mario), Géraldine Pailhas (Prune Angeli), Elisa Sednaoui (Laura), Naomi Greene (Rizzo), Dominique Reymond (Marina), Karole Rocher (Françoise), Solange Najman (Babcia)
produttori/producers
Cyril Colbeau-Justin, Jean-Baptiste Dupont
produzione/production
Lgm Cinéma, Studio Canal, France 3 Cinéma
distribuzione/distribution
Brave Film
vendita all’estero/world sales
Other Angle Pictures
