Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 77'
Young Clindor moved out of his father’s house many years ago. His father hadn’t had any news from him in a long while, until one day, a bulky package is delivered to his door. He opens it and discovers photographs and a video of his son, who is living a debauched life and, according to the person who sent the mysterious package, can be found in Paris. Determined to find Clindor and put him back on the straight and narrow, the man checks in at a hotel in Paris where, in the darkness of the subways, the screens monitor vices, passions and human weaknesses. “When I was little, I used to think the world was false, that everything I saw around me was a set built in real time by my parents. I thought they were imposing their version of the world to prevent me seeing mine. [...] So I told myself I had to be patient and grow up. That’s what becoming adult must mean. At last being allowed to construct your own world. All of this came back to me after several readings of L’Illusion Comique by Corneille, and I realized with amusement that, in the end, nothing had really changed.”
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, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Mathieu Amalric
soggetto/story
dall’omonima commedia di/from the comedy of the same title by Pierre Corneille
fotografia/cinematography
Isabelle Razavet
montaggio/film editing
Annette Dutertre
costumi/costume design
Elisabeth Mehu
musica/music
Martin Wheeler
suono/sound
Olivier Mauvezin
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Muriel Mayette (Rosine), Jean-Baptiste Malartre (Geronte), Alain Lenglet (Pridamant), Denis Podalydes (Matamore), Julie Sicard (Lyse), Loïc Corbery (Clindor), Hervé Pierre (Alcandre), Adrien Gamba-Gontard (Adraste), Suliane Brahim (Isabelle)
produttori/producers
Hugues Charbonneau, Pierre Thoretton, Gilles Sandoz
produzione/production
Les Films de Pierre, Maïa Cinéma
coproduzione/coproduction
La Comédie Française
vendita all’estero/world sales
Le Pacte
