on tour Joachim, a famous TV producer, abandons Paris, his family, his friends, his enemies, his lovers and his remorse and creates a new life for himself in the United States. He returns to France years later with a successful burlesque show of his and plans a triumphant entrance into Paris. But during the tour, Joachim is forced to confront the pain he has caused in the past and must come to terms with the constant melancholy that never leaves him, not even in his new, excessive, surreal and colorful life. “We tried to transmit the immediate and vital energy of the show. The camera alone would not have been enough for the girls, they needed a full, live audience. We only had two and a half hours to shoot: this created a sense of urgency and a precision that, paradoxically, reinforces the fiction. Then, the editing was a continuous battle over whether the mise-en-scène or the documentary would win out. In the end, not surprisingly but with great suffering, the fiction and the characters became the true driving force of the film.”
Biography
film director
Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1965) began as an apprentice on the set of Au revoir les enfants (1987) by Louis Malle. He became famous above all thanks to his collaboration with Arnaud Desplechin (in 1997 he played Paul Dedalus in My Sex Life... or How I Got into an Argument, which won him a César as best young actor in France) and at the same time continued to direct. In 2005 and 2008 he received a César as best actor for Kings and Queen, by Desplechin, and for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Julian Schnabel; in 2010 he won the prize for best director at Cannes for his film On Tour, presented the same year also at the Torino Film Festival, where in 2011 were presented Joann Sfar (Drawings) and The Screen Illusion.
FILMOGRAFIA
Marre de café (cm, 1985), Sans rires (cm, 1990), 8 bis (cm, 1993), Mange ta soupe (1997), Le stade de Wimbledon (Lo stadio di Wimbledon, 2000), 14€58 (cm, 2003), Deux cages sans oiseaux (cm, 2007), Tournée (id., 2010), Joann Sfar (dessins) (mm, doc., 2010), L’illusion comique (tv, 2010), Hopper vu par… (coregia/codirectors Sophie Barthes, Dominique Blanc, Valérie Mrejen, Valérie Pirson, Sophie Fiennes, Martin de Thurah, Hannes Stöhr, ep. Next to Last (Autumn 63), cm, 2012), La chambre bleue (2014).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Mathieu Amalric
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Di Folco, Marcelo Novais Teles, Raphaëlle Valbrune
fotografia/cinematography
Christophe Beaucarne
montaggio/film editing
Annette Dutertre
scenografia/production design
Stéphane Taillasson
costumi/costume design
Alexia Crisp-Jones
suono/sound
Olivier Mauzevin
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Mathieu Amalric (Joachim Zand), Miranda Colclasure (Mimi Le Meaux), Suzanne Ramsey (Kitten on the Keys), Linda Marraccini (Dirty Martini), Julie Ann Muz (Julie Atlas Muz), Angela de Lorenzo (Evie Lovelle), Damien Odoul (François), Ulysse Klotz (Ulysse), Simon Roth (Baptiste), Joseph Roth (Balthazar)
produttori/producers
Yael Fogiel, Laetitia Gonzalez
produzione/production
Les Films du Poisson
coproduttori/coproducers
Petra Hengge, Alexander Ris
coproduzione/coproduction
Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, Arte France Cinema, Wdr/Arte, Le Pacte et Film(s)
distribuzione/distribution
Nomad Film Distribution
vendita all’estero/world sales
Le Pacte