Country: France
Year: 2011
Duration: 81'
Sylvain has dedicated his entire life to a small cinema that is on the edge of bankruptcy. Not only is he the organizer, the programmer, the cameraman and the cashier, he even lives in the basement underneath the screening room. Every night, after the final show, he goes out into the city streets and commits a murder. “I wanted to describe a specific relationship to the cinema and the place it can occupy in someone’s life. Sylvain lives vicariously through the films he screens. In one of the sequences of French Cancan cited in my film, the Prince says: ‘I want you to give me fake memories of my Parisian life.’ I think the same goes for the movie viewer. For an hour and a half he or she lives, suffers, and loves through someone else, making memories of things that never happened in real life, things he partially dreamed up. Sylvain takes this illusion to the tragic next step, for he can no longer tell the difference between fiction and reality, cinema and real life.”
Biography
film director
Laurent Achard
Laurent Achard (France, 1967) debuted as a director in 1992 with the short film Qu’en savent les morts?, which was followed by Dimanche ou les fantômes (1994) and Une odeur de géranium (1997), which both received awards at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival. In 1998, he directed his first feature film, Plus qu’hier, moins que demain, which received the Tiger Award in Rotterdam and the Cyril Collard Award at the Belfort Film Festival that same year. His next short film, La peur, petit chasseur (2004), was presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes and was nominated for a César. His second feature film, Le dernier des fous, was selected to compete at the 2006 Locarno Film Festival, where it received the award for best director and the Prix Jean-Vigo. Dernière séance also competed in Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Qu’en savent les mort? (cm, 1992), Dimanche ou les fantômes (cm, 1994), Une odeur de geranium (cm, 1997), Plus qu’hier, moins que demain (1998), La peur, petit chasseur (cm, 2004), Le dernier des fous (2006), Dernière séance (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Laurent Achard
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Laurent Achard, Frédérique Moreau
fotografia/cinematography
Sabine Lancelin
montaggio/film editing
Jean-Christophe Hym
scenografia/production design
Fréderic Lapierre, Frédérique Lapierre
costumi/costume design
Bénédicte Levraut
suono/sound
Xavier Griette, Mikael Barre
interpreti/cast
Pascal Cervo, Charlotte Van Kemmel, Karole Rocher, Austin Morel, Brigitte Sy, Mireille Roussel, Noël Simsolo
produttore/producer
Sylvie Pialat
produzione/production
Les Films du Worso
coproduzione/coproduction
Dragon 8, Arane, Mikros
vendita all’estero/world sales
Les Films du Losange
