Country: France
Year: 2012
Duration: 98'
A small circus arrives in a coastal area of the North Sea: the place looks rather eerie and the audience is quite scarce. But despite all of this, the life of the performers is animated by feelings born under the circus tent, and which are often lived out in the secret of their trailers. The ballerina Angèle has an affair with Elliot, the company’s clown who is tormented by his conscience; but she is also courted by Heroy, the circus director; he is a cruel and potentially dangerous man who is willing to win her over by resorting to the powers of the magician Zephyr.
Biography
film director
Sophie Blondy
Sophie Blondy (France) trained as an actress, a ballerina, and a theatre director, putting on stage John Berry’s works. She then worked with directors like Andrzej Zulawski, Bruno Nuytten and Tran Anh Hung before majoring in film studies; in 2000 she directed her first feature film Elle et lui au 14E étage with Guillaume Depardieu. In the following years she directed three medium-length features and L’étoile du jour, her second full-length feature.
FILMOGRAFIA
Elle et lui au 14E étage (2000), L’homme que j’attends (mm, 2003), Love & Transmission (mm, 2005), La nuova vita (mm, 2007), L’étoile du jour (2012).
Declaration
film director
“‘You need a lot of chaos in your heart to give birth to a dancing star.’ (Nietzsche). This quote sums up pretty well the intention to release the ‘life story’ of this film and the movie itself, in its poetic quest as in its manufacture. In the chaos that every life is going through, we have to face rudeness, anger, helplessness... The presence of a Supreme Consciousness (performed by Iggy Pop) opens us up to hope for the best of ourselves.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Sophie Blondy
sceneggiatura/screenplay Sophie Blondy, Philippe Benkemoun fotografia/cinematography Nathalie Durand
montaggio/film editing Anaïs Enshaian
scenografia/ production design Nikos Meletopoulos
costumi/costume design Clémentine Dupret
musica/music Steve Mackay, Jim Peuvrel
suono/sound Jean-Luc Rault Cheynet
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Denis Lavant (Elliot), Iggy Pop (la coscienza/conscience), Tchéky Karyo (Heroy), Béatrice Dalle (Zohra), Natacha Régnier (Angèle), Bruno Putzulu (Zephyr)
produzione, vendita all’estero/ production, world sales Good Lap Production
sceneggiatura/screenplay Sophie Blondy, Philippe Benkemoun fotografia/cinematography Nathalie Durand
montaggio/film editing Anaïs Enshaian
scenografia/ production design Nikos Meletopoulos
costumi/costume design Clémentine Dupret
musica/music Steve Mackay, Jim Peuvrel
suono/sound Jean-Luc Rault Cheynet
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Denis Lavant (Elliot), Iggy Pop (la coscienza/conscience), Tchéky Karyo (Heroy), Béatrice Dalle (Zohra), Natacha Régnier (Angèle), Bruno Putzulu (Zephyr)
produzione, vendita all’estero/ production, world sales Good Lap Production
