29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE: PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE

JOANN SFAR (DESSINS)

JOANN SFAR (DRAWINGS)
by Mathieu Amalric
Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 43'


At the zoo, in front of the orangutan cage, Joann Sfar carefully observes the animals as he sketches them on a pad of paper. Thus, an orangutan busy with a jar of yogurt turns into a woman at the tram stop. At the fish market, the glassy eyes of the fish which have just been delivered take form on the paper, with hues which are barely suggested by the watercolors. The distorted lines of a dissected body at the faculty of medicine and lifelong friends, with their strange habits, become elements that are equally important in the creation of the artist’s universe and imagination.

 

“The movie spectator is a ‘lazybones,’ all he has to do is set his bottom in a chair and eat whatever put in front of him. The person who prefers comic books or the theater is a true worker: he accepts that just one actor does all the parts, he pretends not to see the backstage, he gives credit to the masks which are being shaken under his nose. He enters into a series of events in which time isn’t measured like in the rest of the world. This client is truly a good client.” (Joann Sfar)

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, fotografia/director, cinematography

Mathieu Amalric

montaggio/film editing

Thomas Marchand

suono/sound

Frédéric Dabo

interpreti/cast

Joann Sfar, Philippe Comar, Patrick Mertens, Riad Sattouf, Christophe Blain, Mathieu Sapin 

produttore/producer

Estelle Fialon

produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales

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