Country: France
Year: 2012
Duration: 65'
A team of researchers is sent to the other side of the planet to go down into five enormous sinkholes which have just been discovered. One of the researchers is professor Georges Lebrun, who has brought along his wife, a restless and nervous woman who is soon overcome by her vicinity to the void.
Biography
film director
Antoine Barraud
Antoine Barraud (1972) in 2004 made his first short, Monstre, which participated at numerous international festivals. He then directed other films, part documentary and part experimental, including portraits of filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Shuji Terayama and Koji Wakamatsu. Song (2007) and La forêt des songes (2010) were both presented at the Torino Film Festival, where, in 2011, another film of his was screened, Son of a Gun, which he co-directed with Claire Doyon. He has participated as a producer in many projects including the film by Stephen Dwoskin Age Is..., which is participating at this year’s Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Monstre (cm, 2004), Déluge (mm, 2005), Song (2007), Monstre, numéro deux (mm, 2007), River of Anger (mm, doc., 2007), Danièle Gould (doc., 2007), Plug (cm, 2009), La forêt des songes (mm, doc., 2010), La montagne de la terreur (cm, doc., 2010), Les maisons de feu (cm, doc., 2010), Son of a Gun (coregia/codirector Claire Doyon, cm, 2011), Les gouffres (2012).
Declaration
film director
“The depths are obviously a materialization of the unconscious. From our secret and interior world. I longed to take on the female character in this way, like a descent to Earth’s center, toward archaic fires and primal waters. The descent to the depths has forever evoked all kinds of fantasies, fears, excitation: from the monsters’ den, to the cave of treasures, ancient Greek Hades to the maps of concave hollow Earth, Jules Verne’s Black Indies to Egyptian tombs, Maltese catacombs to secret subterranean passageways. The depths straightaway hearken to something ancient, mythological. Here, for me, is a marvelous, fantastically cinegenic and panting way to approach this woman’s interior adrift. To go to the bottom of one’s self.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Antoine Barraud
fotografia/cinematography Gordon Spooner
montaggio/film editing Antoine Barraud, Fred Piet
scenografia/production design Jean-Charles Duboc, Anne Delepoulle costumi/costume design Moïra Douget
musica/music Sebastian von Roland
suono/sound Fred Piet, Gilles Bénardeau
interpreti/cast Nathalie Boutefeu (France), Mathieu Amalric (Georges), Mario Dragunsky (il guardiano/guardian), Martha Hosking (Pearl), Vincent Launay (l’altro Georges/the other Georges), Lina Maria Rozo Ocampo (Sylvia), Antoine Barraud (Maurice), Benoît Joubert, Antonio Armando Alvarez, Jesus Hernandez Parada, Thomas Laborde (gli uomini delle gole/men in the sinkholes)
produttore/producer Justin Taurand
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Les Films du Bélier
fotografia/cinematography Gordon Spooner
montaggio/film editing Antoine Barraud, Fred Piet
scenografia/production design Jean-Charles Duboc, Anne Delepoulle costumi/costume design Moïra Douget
musica/music Sebastian von Roland
suono/sound Fred Piet, Gilles Bénardeau
interpreti/cast Nathalie Boutefeu (France), Mathieu Amalric (Georges), Mario Dragunsky (il guardiano/guardian), Martha Hosking (Pearl), Vincent Launay (l’altro Georges/the other Georges), Lina Maria Rozo Ocampo (Sylvia), Antoine Barraud (Maurice), Benoît Joubert, Antonio Armando Alvarez, Jesus Hernandez Parada, Thomas Laborde (gli uomini delle gole/men in the sinkholes)
produttore/producer Justin Taurand
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Les Films du Bélier
