29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE/JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT 2011
JEONJU DIGITAL PROJECT 2011: ALLER AU DIABLE
by Claire Denis
Country: South Korea, France
Year: 2011
Duration: 45'
A portrait of an alaku, a member of the Maroon people, originally from the western coast of Africa but who survived for four hundred years in the forest after escaping the violence of Dutch domination and slavery. “I was eager to participate to the project but I was worried to start late in the schedule; anyway I believed it is a great opportunity. The kind of film I was going to shoot was a challenge with our budget; we were going to French Guyana and Surinam to meet a famous goldigger, a man with a bad reputation but a great heart, great skills, a lot of humour. My intention was not exactly a documentary. It was linked to a fiction character.”
Biography
film director
Claire Denis
Claire Denis (Paris, France, 1948) grew up in colonial Africa and she graduated from the IDHEC. She began her film career as an assistant director, collaborating with Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gavras, Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders. Her debut film, Chocolat (1988) attracted the attention of film critics. Movies such as Nenette and Boni, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 1996, Trouble Every Day (2001), which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, The Intruder, which competed in Venice in 2004, 35 Shots of Rum, Special Jury Prize at the Festival of Gijon in 2008, have won her international fame. She also acted in En avoir (ou pas) (1995) by Laetitia Masson and Venus Beauty Institute (1999) by Tonie Marshall.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Chocolat (1988), Man No Run (doc., 1989), S’en fout la mort (Al diavolo la morte, 1991), Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... (ep. US Go Home, mm, tv, 1994) Nénette et Boni (Nenette e Boni, 1996), Beau travail (1999), Trouble Every Day (Cannibal Love - Mangiata viva, 2001), Vendredi soir (2002), Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (ep. Vers Nancy, cm, 2002), L’intrus (2004), Vers Mathilde (doc., 2005), 35 Rhums (2008), White Material (2009), Jeonju Digital Project 2001 - Aller au diable (mm, 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Claire Denis
fotografia/cinematography
Yves Cape
montaggio/film editing
Guy Lecorne
musica/music
Original Aluku Soldier di/by Klodyas, Wailing Roots
suono/sound
Martin Boissau
interpreti/cast
Jean Bena, Johan Affossini, Peter Assabal, Jean-Christophe Folly
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Jeonju International Film Festival
coproduzione/coproduction
Why Not Productions
