34° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
WAVES

SARAH WINCHESTER, OPERA FANTÔME

SARAH WINCHESTER, OPERA FANTÔME
by Bertrand Bonello
Country: France
Year: 2016
Duration: 24'


Music fills Place de la Bastille: it comes from the Opéra but it isn’t accompanying a performance, or at least not directly. And yet something links it to the ballet being rehearsed at the Opéra Garnier, on whose stage the ballerinas, including the étoile Marie-Agnès Gillot, sway as they follow the ideal musical leitmotif directed by José Luis Basso. A ghost opera – dedicated to Sarah Pardee Winchester, the American heiress and widow of the founder of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company – which doesn’t exist but is nonetheless enchanting. [rm]

Biography

film director

Bertrand Bonello

Bertrand Bonello (Nice, France, 1968), French director, screenwriter and composer, debuted in feature films in 1998 with Quelque chose d’organique, presented in the Panorama section at the Berlin Film Festival. His next film, Le pornographe, with Jean-Pierre Léaud portraying a pornography director, participated at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Award. He also presented his next films at Cannes: Tiresia (2003), in competition; the short Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (2005); De la guerre (2008), at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs; L’Apollonide (2011), in competition, as was Saint Laurent (2014). In 2016 he realized the  feature film Nocturama and the short  Sarah Winchester, Opéra fantôm, which was selected at the TFF. In 2019 his feature Zombi Child premiered in Cannes, at Directors' Fortnight. Coma (2022) premiered at Berlinale.

FILMOGRAFIA

Qui je suis (cm, 1996), Quelque chose d’organique (1998), Le pornographe (2001), The Adventures of James and David (cm, 2002), Tiresia (2003), Cindy: The Doll Is Mine (cm, 2005), My New Picture (cm, 2006), De la guerre (2008), Where the Boys Are (cm, 2010), L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) (2011), Ingrid Caven, musique et voix (doc., 2012), Saint Laurent (2014), Sarah Winchester, Opéra fantôme (cm, 2016), Nocturama (2016), Zombi Child (2019), Coma (2022).

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, musica/director, screenplay, music
Bertrand Bonello
fotografia/cinematography
Irina Lubtchansky
scenografia/production design
Antoine Barraud
suono/sound
Jean-Paul Mugel, Ymes-Marie Omnes, Nicolas Moreau, Jean-Pierre Laforce
interpreti/cast
Reda Kated, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Juliette Vial, José Luis Basso
produzione/production
My New Picture


contatti/contacts
Stray Dogs
Laura Nacher
laura@stray-dogs.com
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