Year: 1992
Duration: 126'
Paris, the mid-1980s.The HIV-positive artist Jean lives an intense love story with Laura, who is very young and to whom he hasn't said anything about his illness. At the same time, he is having a secret affair with the rugby player Samy. Based on a novel by Collard himself, one of the iconic movies of French cinema of the '80s, a box office hit in France – where an entire generation recognized itself in the self-destructive romanticism of the protagonist and of Collard, who directed and starred in the movie. In Italy, it was censored and prohibited to minors under 18 years of age. Presented in competition in 1992 at the 10th Festival Internazionale del Cinema Giovane in Turin, the movie won the Special Jury Prize, the FIPRESCI Prize, and the Achille Valdata Audience Award. Collard died of AIDS in 1993, four days before his movie won four César awards; the next year, it received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film.
Biography
film director
Cyril Collard
(Paris, France, 1957-1993) after studying math and physics, changed his interests and moved to Puerto Rico, where he began a career as an author. After returning to France, with Sylvain Rondy and René-Marc Bini he created the rock group CYR and began working in film as an assistant to Maurice Pialat for Loulou (1980), Ai nostri amori (To Our Loves, 1993), and Police (1985), in which he also played a small role, and as a documentary filmmaker for television and the author of musical videos (in particular, for the Franco-Algerian group Carte de Séjour). In 1987, he published his first novel Condamné amour a short while after discovering he was HIV-positive, and three years later, he wrote the autobiographical Les Nuits Fauves, which later became his only fiction feature film. Les Nuits Fauves (Savage Nights, 1992), won four César awards and was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign language film. Previously, he had made a short film with the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, Les raboteurs de Caillebotte (1988), and created the TV series Le Lyonnais, directing one episode. He died of AIDS at 35 years of age, three days before the César ceremony which honored him posthumously.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Baule-Dakar (doc., 1981), Grand huit (mm, 1982), Alger la bianche (cm, 1985), Les raboteurs de Caillebotte (cm, 1988), Les nuits fauves (1992).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Cyril Collard. STORY: dal romanzo omonimo di Cyrill Collard. SCREENPLAY: Cyril Collard, Jacques Fieschi. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bernard Fau. FILM EDITING: Lise Beaulieu. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Jacky Macchi. MUSIC: da Cyril Collard, René Marc Bini. SOUND: Michel Bretez, Dominique Hennequin. CAST: Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos Lopez, Corine Blue, Claude Winter, RenéMarc Bini, Maria Schneider, Clémentine Célarié, Laura Favali. PRODUCERS: Nella Banfi, Alessandro Verdecchi. PRODUCTION: Banfilm, Orango Film.
CONTACT:
Luisa Porrino luisa.porrino@gmail.com
