Country: France
Year: 2016
Duration: 100'
As he tracks a pack of wolves in preparation for his next movie, the director Léo meets Marie, a young shepherdess who lives in the mountains of southern France with her two children. Nine months later, he finds himself dealing with an unexpected paternity. After Marie abandons him, he stays on to live with the girl’s gruff father and the newborn child, and discovers himself to be an attentive and dedicated father. But elderly Marcel and Yoan live down in the valley; they both attract the attention of Léo, who is always ready to put himself completely on the line. [rm]
Biography
film director
Alain Guiraudie
(Villefranche-de-Rouergue, France, 1964) studied at the University of Montpellier and made his first short film in 1990, Les héros sont immortels. His medium-length film, Sunshine for the Poor (2001) is exemplary of his atypical cinema, which mixes westerns, picaresque stories and philosophical tales. In 2001 he realized That Old Dream That Moves, that won the Jean Vigo Prize and was awarded at the Quinzane des réalisateurs. In 2003 he directed the feature film No Rest for the Brave, that was shown in several film festivals such as Cannes and Karlovy Vary, and in 2005 he made Time Has Come, screened in competition at Torino Film Festival, just as The King of Escape. In 2013 Stranger by the Lake won for the Best Director at Certain regard section in Cannes. With Rester vertical (2016) he participated for the first time in Cannes competition. Viens Je t'emmene was presented in the Panorama section at the last Berlinale.
FILMOGRAFIA
Les héros sont immortels (cm, 1990), Tout droit jusqu’au matin (cm, 1994), La force des choses (cm, 1997), Du soleil pour les gueux (mm, 2000), Ce vieux rêve qui bouge (mm, 2001), Pas de repos pour les braves (2003), Voici venu le temps (2005), Le roi de l’évasion (2009), L’inconnu du lac (Lo sconosciuto del lago, 2013), Rester vertical (2016), Viens Je t’emmene (2022).
Declaration
film director
“I think it’s always been important for me to establish bridges between the life I led yesterday and my life today through tales, legends and myth. It’s an avenue that’s important for me to explore. It’s been an essential question since time immemorial. […] Many of the film’s elements recall the imaginativeness of a fairytale: the town of Séverac with the castle towering over it, the mysterious areas of the Poitevin marshland and, of course, the wolf...”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Alain Guiraudie
fotografia/cinematography
Claire Mathon
montaggio/film editing
Jean-Christophe Hym
scenografia/production design
Toma Baqueni
costumi/costume design
Sabrina Violet, François Labarthe, Adelaïde Le Gras
suono/sound
Philippe Grivel, Jeanne Delplancq, Nathalie Vidal
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Damien Bonnard (Léo), India Hair (Marie), Raphaël Thiéry (Jean-Louis), Christian Bouillette (Marcel), Basile Meilleurat (Yoan), Laure Calamy (Mirande), Sébastien Novac (il produttore/producer)
produttori/producers
Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon
contatti/contacts
Wild Bunch
Esther Devos
edevos@wildbunch.eu
www.wildbunch.biz
Alain Guiraudie
fotografia/cinematography
Claire Mathon
montaggio/film editing
Jean-Christophe Hym
scenografia/production design
Toma Baqueni
costumi/costume design
Sabrina Violet, François Labarthe, Adelaïde Le Gras
suono/sound
Philippe Grivel, Jeanne Delplancq, Nathalie Vidal
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Damien Bonnard (Léo), India Hair (Marie), Raphaël Thiéry (Jean-Louis), Christian Bouillette (Marcel), Basile Meilleurat (Yoan), Laure Calamy (Mirande), Sébastien Novac (il produttore/producer)
produttori/producers
Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Quainon
contatti/contacts
Wild Bunch
Esther Devos
edevos@wildbunch.eu
www.wildbunch.biz
